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That would ensure this "problem" happen in the future -- and you gets lots of brainpower in figuring out how to really improve on the basic theme!
What functionality would you like to see in a great collaborative online editor?
Has anyone thought about creating an open-source version of this type of product? That would ensure this "problem" happen in the future -- and you gets lots of brainpower in figuring out how to really improve on the basic theme! What functionality would you like to see in a great collaborative online editor?
We need a license that will a) protect the developer from competition as long as they're in business and b) protect users from the company killing the product. When devs are not in game anymore, it must be possible for users to run the software themselves and allow others to enter the market (fork the company, not just free software). id Software's approach by frequently releasing old versions of code in Affero GPL might work.
a forever qualm about online code editor i have is that they don't do automatic indenting properly. I have never used etherpad, i'm not sure how well they did this, but textmate is a good example to model after :D
EDIT: I see they added the autoindent setting last March. I still can't for the life of me figure out how to actually enable it. It should be on by default, no question about it.
Has anyone thought about creating an open-source version of this type of product? That would ensure this "problem" happen in the future -- and you gets lots of brainpower in figuring out how to really improve on the basic theme! What functionality would you like to see in a great collaborative online editor?
OT, Is there any start-up that tried free (as in speech) model for SaaS product? It will be selling point, because you don't have to worry about company going out of business or that they decided to move on to something else. We need a license that will a) protect the developer from competition as long as they're in business and b) protect users from the company killing the product. When devs are not in game anymore,…
Mint (http://www.haveamint.com) and FogBugz (http://www.fogcreek.com/FogBugz/)
You can buy and self-host these products, with source code included.
Don't broadcast development intentions. That never works well.
a forever qualm about online code editor i have is that they don't do automatic indenting properly. I have never used etherpad, i'm not sure how well they did this, but textmate is a good example to model after :D