Dropbox has released the source code for its Hackpad collaborative note-taking application under an open-source license.
Dropbox acquired Hackpad in April 2014. About a year later the team behind Hackpad informed users that the code would become available under an open-source license “in the next few weeks.” When that didn’t happen right away, some people got frustrated and took to GitHub to vent.
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Above: Hackpad on iOS.
“We’re looking forward to seeing what people will build on top of Hackpad,” a Dropbox spokeswoman told VentureBeat in an email.
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