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Originally Posted by ApK
Sound right, but you'd think they could make a little money/goodwill by selling/giving away the stuff they are shutting down for those reasons so someone else might take them over and people could still benefit from them.
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Yes, I agree.
But I asked on a technology site (I think TechCrunch, maybe) if this was a candidate for some sort of OpenSource situation. The general consensus from the respondents was that there are already Open Source projects that really need only minor tweaking to replicate the Reader functionality so the effort to get an OpenSource reader project going would be a lot of work and costly in time resources that could get a project going just in time to see its unique niche already filled by the competition.
So my gut feeling is that while the Reader situation is disruptive in the short term, that in 6 to 18 months no one will care very much.
You know there is also an upside to this situation, with Google out of the way and using up all the RSS air in the room, this frees up OTHER developers to think about how THEY would go about providing those services. Competition is a good thing and a hegemony usually leads to eventual stagnation.