Sparrow's acquisition highlights the dangers of closed source
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 21st Jul 2012 23:06 UTC
In the News Okay, so this is entirely new to me. Sparrow is was an email client for Mac OS X and iOS (and Windows), which brought a decent Gmail experience to these platforms - as opposed to Apple's own not-so-good Gmail support and Google's Gmail iOS application which, well, is just a webpage. Google has now acquired Sparrow, and basically all hell has broken loose, to the point of Rian van der Merwe writing that 'we' lost "faith in a philosophy that we thought was a sustainable way to ensure a healthy future for independent software development, where most innovation happens".
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RE[4]: Comment by sicofante
by lucas_maximus on Mon 23rd Jul 2012 21:21 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: Comment by sicofante"
lucas_maximus
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2009-08-18

So you were talking in favour while saying everything about open source was a load of rubbish.

You know what that is ... propaganda, FUD or lies.

Have a nice day.

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