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Google Wave Looking To Join Apache Software Foundation

Posted by samzenpus on from the part-of-the-gang dept.

MMacFadden writes "The Google Wave team has officially submitted the open source version of Wave to the Apache Software Foundation as a candidate Incubator project. Google hopes that the wave technology will continue to grow, supported by the new open source community (which is made up of Google and non-Google employees alike). Here is the proposal itself."

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  1. Hope by Konsalik · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I really hope Wave lives on. It is really a great idea albeit a bit to ambitious for its time (The whole lets replace email overnight thing). Maybe with some TLC from the OS community and a while in the incubator we can have a truly ripe and great piece of software.

    1. Re:Hope by Bieeanda · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Really, claiming that it was an e-mail replacement/killer/evolution was the biggest mistake they made. Wave is what it is: very inexpensive collaboration software. That's an absolutely fantastic thing for teleconferencing, but just shy of totally useless for the average consumer's everyday purposes. I think it's fantastic that they've open sourced the project, and I do hope that it makes it into an incubator, because similar software from outfits like Adobe and Co. are loopily expensive, and this could be a real benefit for organizations that run on a fraying shoestring budget. I just hope that people can get past the claim that Wave's apple was really an orange.

  2. Re:WAVE still exists! by batkiwi · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's going to be shut off in about 2 months, and they reassigned the entire team to other projects and the creator left to go to facebook, who just days ago announced an effort on a project "to replace email" with something more collaborative and real time.

    Where have you been?

  3. Re:I just hope that Google cleans up their act by gmor · · Score: 4, Informative

    "Summary" is a required field when you report an issue. Type something and you can submit the bug.