Oh wow! Any insights for the curious? I’d love to know more than what’s already on wikipedia from a first hand source! Cheers
My friend Nick McKinney and I borrowed $25k from a chiropractor and spent a year trying to get Linux users to replace X with Synapse (which was a paid offering that wasn't compatible with anything.) We had no idea what we were doing, no idea how to get customers, etc. So we gave up and released it as open source.
It was a lot of fun! I have tons of stories, but I gotta go because I am trying to prepare for a talk (currently posted on http://js.la/)