Comment by callahad
16 years ago
Can money replace seeing your vision for realtime collaboration die twice? I'm sure they're not hurting, but if they were building the technology because they believed it could transform the way we interact with each other for the better... Well, that still has to sting.
Can money replace seeing your vision for realtime collaboration die twice?
There is another way of looking at this. Let me rephrase that for you:
Isn't it nice that Google gave us all that money in order to let us try our idea a second time? Just look at all the lessons we learned in preparation for the third time. Google may even open-source all our work so we can take it with us.
The Etherpad guys originally tried to build a platform (AppJet). Then etherpad took off, and they pivoted to building the company around that.
Not saying they wouldn't be a bit disappointed, just that their original version changed at least once and they seem to have dealt with that ok.