A $100 million reverse acqui-hire

By Vasudev Ram



He he, good one on WIRED:

"So being able to attract talent was an impetus for selling to Dropbox?"

From:

Meet the Man Who Sold a Month-Old App to Dropbox for $100M

Seems sort of like an acqui-hire in reverse ...

- Vasudev Ram - Dancing Bison Enterprises




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Dropbox buys Snapjoy

Dropbox Acquires Snapjoy And Puts Photos Into Its Focus - TechCrunch

Python creator and BDFL Guido van Rossum leaving Google for Dropbox

Dropbox Tech Blog » Blog Archive » Welcome Guido!

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benevolent_Dictator_for_Life

Interestingly, it's hardly an hour since he announced the news on Twitter, and it is already mentioned on his Wikipedia page:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guido_van_Rossum

Wow. Quite a surprise. But see Black Swan.

My initial reaction: First and most important thing, of course, is that Dropbox should let him keep on spending a good amount of time working on Python, as he did at Google.

Python is more important than any one company, considering its impact and usage worldwide. He's the BDFL for solid reasons.

I had blogged or tweeted some time ago that Dropbox uses Python a lot, to write its app clients on different OS's.

- Vasudev Ram
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Python used for Dropbox's Linux, Windows and Mac client software

By Vasudev Ram


In an O'Reilly Radar interview, Python creator Guido van Rossum (GvR) says that the Linux, Windows and Mac client software for Dropbox ( the widely used cloud file-storage and sharing service), are all implemented in Python.

The O'Reilly article also mentions GvR's Google+ post on improving Python performance. I had heard about that post recently, but when I tried to view it, I kept getting an error "This post could not be found".

- Vasudev Ram - Dancing Bison Enterprises

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Google Drive and Dropbox desktop clients use wxPython

See the wxWidgets page for news about that:

http://wxwidgets.org

wxPython is the Python binding of the wxWidgets  cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit.

wxPython is fairly easy to use at least for simple apps.