We have always pursued innovative projects because we want to drive breakthroughs in computer science that dramatically improve our users’ lives. Last year at Google I/O, when we launched our developer preview of Google Wave, a web app for real time communication and collaboration, it set a high bar for what was possible in a web browser. We showed character-by-character live typing, and the ability to drag-and-drop files from the desktop, even “playback” the history of changes—all within a browser. Developers in the audience stood and cheered. Some even waved their laptops.

We were equally jazzed about Google Wave internally, even though we weren’t quite sure how users would respond to this radically different kind of communication. The use cases we’ve seen show the power of this technology: sharing images and other media in real time; improving spell-checking by understanding not just an individual word, but also the context of each word; and enabling third-party developers to build new tools like consumer gadgets for travel, or robots to check code.

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Too bad.

I wish they would release it as open source.

It would be nice if companies chose to open-source their defunct/failed/abandoned/closed products and services offerings.

They did release a lot of the code as open source. And most of it will be integrated into other Google things I recall reading.

If you actually read the full article:

The central parts of the code, as well as the protocols that have driven many of Wave’s innovations, like drag-and-drop and character-by-character live typing, are already available as open source, ...

The NewsBot has terminated the full article at an unfortunate point, since the excerpt that starts this thread gives the complete opposite impression to the headline.

Well, if you will edit news, without any brains, that's what you get!!

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