{"id":68168,"date":"2009-12-07T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/AppJet-Retreats-on-Closure-Plans-Will-Open-Source-EtherPad-Instead-129002.shtml"},"modified":"2009-12-07T05:30:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-07T10:30:00","slug":"appjet-retreats-on-closure-plans-will-open-source-etherpad-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/68168","title":{"rendered":"AppJet Retreats on Closure Plans, Will Open Source EtherPad Instead"},"content":{"rendered":"

Late last week, AppJet announced that it had been acquired by Google and that it would be effectively shutting down EtherPad, its real-time document collaboration app. This last part didn’t sit particularly well with its users which were vocal in their disapproval of the move, claiming that in no way Google Wave, to which they were encouraged to switch, is a substitute for the app they’ve grown to love. AppJet has heard their complaints and has now completely scratched its initial plans and will continue to support the service at least until it will completely open-source it, which it also intents to do. <\/p>\n

“Many of you were not super thrilled with the transition plan we announced in our last blog post, which I guess is really quite flattering. We have worked with Google and the Google Wave team to make the following changes to the plan, which I think you will appreciate,” Aaron Iba, AppJet CEO wrote. <\/p>\n

“We have re-enabled pad creation from the EtherPad home page. We have begun planning how to open source the code to EtherPad and the underlying AppJet Web Framework… We are working with the Google Wave team to get all EtherPad users a chance to try out the Google Wave preview within the next couple of weeks.”<\/p>\n

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Late last week, AppJet announced that it had been acquired by Google and that it would be effectively shutting down EtherPad, its real-time document collaboration app. This last part didn’t sit particularly well with its users which were vocal in their disapproval of the move, claiming that in no way Google Wave, to which they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}