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Re:Digg Reader is planning to shut down on March 26 by gamedna on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @06:37PM (#16588979)
Releasing their source does not imply that they are providing a working turn-key product that another company or individual could just one click install and have Digg back. Put it out there so the next generation has the opportunity to learn from their experience as well as their mistakes.

That said, you are absolutely right. Software at scale is complicated and often difficult to deploy and maintain. I just feel that this is not a barrier for open-sourcing their product.

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Re:Digg Reader is planning to shut down on March 26 by joshstrange on Thursday March 15, 2018 @11:12AM (#16593498)
> Releasing their source does not imply that they are providing a working turn-key product that another company or individual could just one click install and have Digg back.

Except that exactly what most people will want and get mad if it's not easy to run. The backlash from that isn't worth it.

> I just feel that this is not a barrier for open-sourcing their product.

IP alone can be a bitch and that coupled with the fact that a number of companies have secrets (key/tokens/passwords/etc) in their code and cleaning those out (AND removing the git/svn history) is no small task. Lastly there are number of open source RSS readers out there, I seriously doubt Digg was doing anything particularly innovative in this space and I don't imagine many people care to build on something they made 5 years ago and probably didn't update much since then. Especially if it's not built with the "New hotness".

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Re:Digg Reader is planning to shut down on March 26 by gamedna on Monday March 19, 2018 @06:35PM (#16623935)
Most of what you say is speculative. Without their code we will never be certain for sure.

Also: "Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… " -Theodore Roosevelt

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