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Today on its blog, Pogoplug answered the burning question: “What happens if Pogoplug goes out of business?”  The group over at Pogoplug has taken the impressive and humbling step of thinking about what will happen to their customers if Pogoplug should ever go belly up.  You don’t come across such forward thinking very often.  So, what exactly does Pogoplug have planned for its afterlife?  The company has set up an escrow account that contains Pogoplug’s back-end services’ source code.  Should Pogoplug cease to exist, SourceForge will publish the source code for Pogoplug’s community to use in maintaining the servers.

This sounds like a great plan for those in the Pogoplug community who can actually use the code to do something worthwhile.  However, the Pogoplug was designed to be simple enough for anyone to use - one of the designers actually had his Mom in mind when making the product.  These “simple users” are going to have to rely on others to take up the source code and keep Pogoplug servers active.

Now, if you haven’t heard of Pogoplug yet, it is a small-sized home server box available for $99 (not including tax or shipping) that lets you access your files over the internet.  You simply plug it into an electrical outlet, connect it to the internet via ethernet, connect your USB hard drive to it and share away.

Read [Pogoplug Blog]