Google Web Word Processor now open source

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Google Writely, an online web editor, has gone opensource, previously only invited users could sign up.

One of the advantages of this online word processor is the option to work on one document with multiple users.

Other advantages of Writely:

Edit your documents from anywhere.
Nothing to download -- your browser is all you need.
Store your documents securely online.
Offsite storage plus data backup every 10 seconds.
Easy to use.
Clean, uncluttered screens with a familiar, desktop feel.

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Open Source?

February 27, 2007 by draco dragon

This is, to the extent of my knowledge, definitely not open source. Open source by definition requires the source code to be available. Someone may argue that you can just "view page source" in your web browser and you have access to the source code. Well, that is as much the source code as a Print-Screen copy of a scene in Half-Life 2. All of the real code is C, Java, Python, Perl, etc. on the server's end.

not open source

June 11, 2007 by andrew ge

Whoever wrote this article needs to read up on their terminology. As stated above, you need to publish your code in full to be open source. This is just opening user registrations. Perhaps the article should be renamed as its misleading?

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Google Web Word Processor now open source

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Open Source?

*not* open source

not open source