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Google Open Sources Etherpad, Piratepad Launches

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the fair-play dept.

Thomas Nybergh writes "The Etherpad code was released by Google under the Apache license a few hours ago. Google's initial plan, after acquiring the service, was to use Etherpad's tech with its new Wave collaboration platform and to shut down the original service entirely. Soon after the Etherpad code was released, the Swedish Pirate Party launched their instance of the service at piratepad.net. An announcement, which also mentions a new Tor node, is published on the party website (Google translation). The original Etherpad service had in a short time become a killer application for collaborative work within at least the Swedish, and according to my personal experience, in the Finnish Pirate Party as well. The Etherpad open source project is available at Google Code."

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  1. Re:Pretty awesome by AHuxley · · Score: 3, Funny

    MS grabs the tech and dumps the company in a shallow grave.
    Google grabs the tech and then markets the company as a tasty snack on the open day bbq.

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  2. Re:A hint as to buy-out reasoning. by wootest · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yes, you're right, they're exactly the same thing.

  3. Re:EtherPad makes Google Wave look even worse by emj · · Score: 3, Funny

    Shopping with your neighbors customer cards is even better.

  4. Re:Excellent Summary by maxwell+demon · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, the first post is just a classic first post, rightly moderated down to -1. You probably meant RTFSP.

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  5. Re:EtherPad makes Google Wave look even worse by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, but it is java - what a total let-down. I was expecting real, usable code. Not java.

    Hopefully Google's intent is to re-write it all in python, php or c. Then I will be interested.

    I feel like the kid on Christmas who wanted a bike but got a sweater.

  6. Re:EtherPad makes Google Wave look even worse by Abreu · · Score: 3, Funny

    Give me tasty, juicy, delicious steaks and I'll go and plug back in...

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  7. Re:Huh? How is this better than wave... ? by BikeHelmet · · Score: 3, Funny

    (which I hate, particularly when conversation threading and search is not available in e-mail).

    It is in gmail.

    So Google's main competition to Wave is Google (Etherpad) and Google (Gmail) ?

    I love companies that never stop innovating.