Dropbox releases its chat app Zulip under an open-source license
Sep26
Dropbox has released its recently acquired chat app, Zulip under an open-source Apache license. According to a blog post by Zulip co-founder Tim Abbott announcing the move, Dropbox has released everything, including the server, Android and iOS mobile apps, desktop apps for Mac, Linux and Windows, and the Puppet configuration necessary for running the Zulip server in production. Abbott had this to say about the overall genre: The world of open source chat has for a long been dominated by IRC and XMPP, both of which are very old and haven’t advanced materially in the last decade. In comparison, Zulip starts…
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