[Cialug] Launchpad goes OSS

[Todd Walton]

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Matthew Nuzum<newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:
> love to hear how it goes. I know Mark and Canonical both are very very
> serious about this and want to emphasize this is not a token gesture but
> they really want Launchpad to become a thriving open source project. Not to
> shift the development load onto the community (like some abandonware
> projects do) but to allow the community to help drive new features and
> improvements.

Not that abandonware is necessarily bad.  Better to open source and
walk away, than to just walk away.

Question: Why wasn't launchpad open source from the beginning?  Were
there reasons?

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Todd