Google opens Jaiku source code

I don't know about you, be if I was the founder of Jaiku I would be very upset. You sold your company to Google, hoping it would become this great tool that everyone would be using, and then once google gets a hold of it they kill it, because they can't get it back out the door. So it dies before it ever evens has a chance. The company was Google's and they were free to do with it what they like, but that is just sad.

Then again maybe they aren't to sad, because they likely made a good bit of money on the deal.

As someone who develops some on AppEngine, this is a great announcement. There is a real limited amount of documentation from Google on AppEngine and this will be a peak into what they consider best practices, etc.

I'm hearing that the 20% time at Google is being de-emphasized because of the focus on the projects that DO work/make money. Add to that their recent laying off of recruiters and hiring freeze, maybe they'll open source more and more. Yay! Dodgeball for everyone!