On Thu, 17 May 2012 09:48:52 +0200, Cédric Beust ♔ <ced...@beust.com>
wrote:
I can only speculate, but I can think of plenty of reasons, starting with
1) turning a closed source project into open source requires a lot (a
lot!)
more efforts than people think,
This is true when the company still maintains the project. I don't see it
happening when you donate it and clearly state that you're no more
spending effort on it. I repeat: Adobe did it for Flash, they aren't
investing any longer into the product, still decided to donate it.
2) it would also mean exposing the API that
the application uses, which means more support and
Not true. Google can say: the app is using a deprecated API and we won't
be supporting it any longer; community, be advised that if you want to
keep the client alive it's up to you to patch it to use the newest API.
< 3) what does Google
have
to gain from such a move? (nothing)
I perfectly agree. This is the true reason. It's legitimate. What makes me
angry is when I hear Google proclaiming their support for the community,
sake of the world's progress and the other bullshit. Not counting the
"Make no evil" stuff which is the mother of all insults to people's
intelligence.
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