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#Google reader open source software
And in this era, where everything is becoming cloud-based and closed, we should really think about what brought us to open source software in the first place. The point is: you’re not at the mercy of one single company. Somebody or some other company could take leadership and continue.
#Google reader open source Patch
You can still open the code and patch it.
The code, the documentation will be there. But because the software we write is open source, it only means the people who are currently writing code for the Activiti and Alfresco project are gone. You see, if we would decide to pull the plug on Activiti or Alfresco today, it will be bad news for sure. And this move by Google really made me reinforce my believe in open source software (again). And that brings me the title of this post (by the way, I wonder what the impact on my users visits will be once Reader goes down). The facts are however plain and simple: if you don’t control it, the company owning it might pull the plug any day. And in the back of our heads we know that is one company behind all these things and yes, we know that this is a bad thing…. It runs my life: e-mail, calendar, navigation, … heck, when my internet is down I check because it is always there. They aren’t doing this for charity.īut me, and many others, rely on Google every day. We all knew this could happen one day, right? After all, Reader is in the hands of one colossal company and is publicly traded on the stock market. Google Reader had few users, but think about who they were:media mavens, tech press, and Google fanboys/fangirls.Bad segment to upset…īut let’s quit whining.
#Google reader open source install
A vocal and influential group (if only it were that they install and maintain the other family members computers 😉 ) Kyle Wild, CEO at Keen_IO states it clearly: I also hope that Google thought very well about the people that they piss off now. Somewhere I read “Google Reader to Twitter is like a filing cabinet to a bag of cats”. According my my stats I’ve read about 35.000 blogs through Reader since I started using it. It is my single source to keep up to date with the industry and Twitter or any other social media by no means comes close. That whooshing sound is “Google Reader” shooting to the top of Twitter’s worldwide trends, even on a day when a new pope was picked.Īnd that giant “NOOOOOOOO” sound is the Internet’s reaction to Google’s most unpopular decision in - well, as far back as I can remember.
Hear that clunking sound? That’s thousands of jaws dropping at the news that Google Reader is going to be retired come July 1, 2013.
Yes, I’m probably biased since I’m a software developer and I tend to talk with and follow fellow geeks. Yet, when I see my twitter feeds and the rss feeds (in Reader) all I can see is the Google Reader news. Google proclaims it has seen a decline in its usage. And it got me thinking.īut let me take a step back first. I can’t think of any service I use for that long and for that amount of time per day. That has been my routine since 2008, regardless of which employer I had or which project I was doing. Every day, sipping my morning coffee, I go to Google Reader to see what has happened in the software world the past day. This morning when I was at the breakfast table I read the news that Google is shutting down Google Reader in July.
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