JaikuEngine Gets Open Sourced 41
volume4 writes "The switch has been flipped and Jaiku has been moved to App Engine. Google will no longer be developing Jaiku, so the code and the future of Jaiku is in the hands of the open source community. From the Jaiku blog: 'Today, we are open sourcing the Jaiku code base under the Apache License 2.0. The code is available as JaikuEngine on Google Code Project Hosting as of now. Anyone can set up and run their own JaikuEngine instance on Google App Engine.'"
We discussed Google's purchase of Jaiku in 2007, and their subsequent decision to halt development a few months ago.
Re:WTF is Jaiku, you ask? (Score:2, Interesting)
My first reaction is that it sounds like Microsoft's Hailstorm (aka .Net My Services, aka "your wallet on the Internet"). Microsoft was positioning it to be the killer app for the .Net platform, but instead it died under a, err, hailstorm of withering criticism about Big Brother and the potential for abuse.
Google is starting to attract the type of fear and loathing once reserved for Microsoft in the '90s (and IBM in the '80s, AT&T in the '70s), so maybe they decided not to risk the PR hit they'd likely have taken by pushing "Jailstorm".