On: Dalton Caldwell: App.net is not Vaporware

[streptomycin]

StatusNet is also not vaporware. Furthermore, it's also open source and federated rather than being yet another proprietary walled garden run by a corporation.

[jmathai → streptomycin]

The thing with projects/apps/sites is that there's a threshold of time before it's considered passe. It's not logical and we in turn waste a lot of time and resources reinventing the wheel but that's the truth of the matter.

I can't shake the feeling that this initiative suffers from the worst of both worlds. It's not entirely open AND it's a paid service.

[dasil003 → jmathai]

Maybe you're right, but you could just as easily frame it as the best of both worlds:

It's driven by the user's interests and it has the polish of a commercial product.

[jmathai → dasil003]

That's the goal...I'm skeptical but hope they can prove me wrong.