This is a real travesty. To cancel Wave due to lack of adoption is pretty 
short-sighted.

Wave wasn't fully developed, it needed better integration with legacy tools 
like e-mail, and it needed a fully functional open sourced platform such that 
federation would be possible. Without these, to hope for mass adoption is 
foolish, and without mass adoption of course, the expected success will remain 
a dream.

Wave didn't progress past the stage of being a very advanced technology 
demonstration for the above mentioned reasons, it's like when GM killed the 
electric car: it wasn't the fault of technology, but of bad strategy.

So I guess we'll be stuck with e-mail and a variety of IM "standards" for 
decades to come...
...all I can hope is that Google at least open-sources all the things they 
wrote to get Wave to this point, so maybe the community picks up and fulfills 
the promise of Wave.

Ronald

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