I worked on both Lotus Notes and Groove. What's great about Ray is that he has the capacity and drive to be involved in every part of the project. He drove high-level business requirements and wrote code and also cared about icons and colors. But he did it all without arrogance and allowed his team to argue back when necessary.
In case anyone is interested, a while back I wrote about another Ray Ozzie project: Live Mesh: <a href="https://gridwhale.medium.com/live-mesh-and-the-future-of-computing-6b3c498a6ccd" rel="nofollow">https://gridwhale.medium.com/live-mesh-and-the-future-of-com...
Thank you for that story and thank you for your contribution. I remember Live Mesh vividly and admit I found parts of it awkward. The functionality I used the most and thought was far ahead of its time was the ability to use Remote Desktop with any computer in the mesh. I often controlled my home computer from work.
While it was technically possible to use a dynamic dns + insecurely forward the RDP ports, LM mostly just worked(tm). It's possible to do this today as securely with something like Tailscale but Live Mesh included all of the batteries and none of the headache. RIP Live Mesh. Thanks again
GMoromisato · · focus · HN ↗
In case anyone is interested, a while back I wrote about another Ray Ozzie project: Live Mesh: <a href="https://gridwhale.medium.com/live-mesh-and-the-future-of-computing-6b3c498a6ccd" rel="nofollow">https://gridwhale.medium.com/live-mesh-and-the-future-of-com...
w0rd-driven · · focus · HN ↗
While it was technically possible to use a dynamic dns + insecurely forward the RDP ports, LM mostly just worked(tm). It's possible to do this today as securely with something like Tailscale but Live Mesh included all of the batteries and none of the headache. RIP Live Mesh. Thanks again
anonymars · · focus · HN ↗
Edit: the best replacement I could find that still exists is "Resilio Sync"