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Linkinus is the preferred IRC client for a lot of our readers, I know (personally I tend towards Colloquy, but only because I’m a cheapskate and it’s donationware), and they kindly dropped us a note to let us know they’d updated to version 1.3. The new build includes the capability to split chat windows (as seen above), in addition to a revamped UI, “major” performance upgrades, plaintext and Spotlight support for logging, and a whole slew of fun things to play around with, including, we’re told, a “Whisper” style that’ll actually embed images, audio files, and YouTube and Google videos right into your chat windows (a la Campfire). Apparently IRC isn’t just text anymore.

In fact, at $20 for all these features, Linkinus really is a steal for anyone who spends any amount of time in an IRC channel. Colloquy still does everything I need it to when I jump into IRC periodically, but if you want to chat like a pro in there, Linkinus is a great choice.

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Nearly a year ago, we wrote about Versions, a program designed to bring an intuitive and attractive interface to the Subversion version control system. Now, Made by Sofa has finally released the first beta.

Although Versions isn’t the only game in town for accessing Subversion repositories through methods other than the command line, it is certainly the best looking, and at least in the few minutes I’ve spent with it, the most Mac-like. The application is beautiful and the interface is very easy to use and comprehend.

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One of the software industry’s longest rivalries isn’t between open source and proprietary software, but rather between IBM and Microsoft. The two companies have long pretended to like each other, even while stabbing the other in the back.

So it should come as no surprise that in the course of announcing its partnership with Novell around Open Collaboration Suite, it was ironic (and very funny) to hear IBM calling out Microsoft for too much “control of IT spending.”

The sales pitch is designed to emphasize that customers can make cost savings by running computers without Microsoft software, and also to tap into fears that Microsoft’s monopoly of the desktop computing and office tools market gives it control over IT spending, IBM said. “An awful lot of the spending dollars available to customers is currently going to desktop software,” Doug Heintzman, director of strategy for IBM collaboration, stated.

What Mr. Heintzman fails to note is that much of the remainder of IT dollars is going to…IBM. Twice what enterprises pay Microsoft.

… Source:The Open Road

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Forbes is reporting that Apple’s new 3G iPhone has hit the docks in Oakland and is set to be unveiled at the imminent Apple Worldwide Developers Conference. This is interesting but mostly old news.

What is truly intriguing is the research Forbes and others have been doing to glean …

Source:The Open Road

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Zimbra keeps on growing

I was on Zimbra’s site this day looking for the latest update to its excellent Desktop product, and encountered the news that open-source Zimbra now has 11 million paid mailboxes. This might still be small potatoes compared to IBM’s Domino and Microsoft’s Exchange, but it signals tremendous growth from Zimbra, as a swift Google search confirmed.

Back in October 2006, Techcrunch reported 4 million paid mailboxes for Zimbra. By January 2007, the number had jumped 2 million to 6 million paid mailboxes.

In the space of a year, then, Zimbra has roughly doubled its customer base. Let’s correlate this to sales.

The company expected to hit $20 million in 2007 (and was on track to do just that as of September 2007, when Yahoo! acquired Zimbra), the year that it probably bumped up against 9 million paid mailboxes ($2.22 per mailbox). It did $6 million in 2006, the year that it had 4 million paid mailboxes ($1.50 per mailbox).

… Source:The Open Road

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I suppose it was too much to anticipate Facebook to adopt a permissive open-source license for its application platform. It’s too bad, as it had the chance to forestall growth from Ning, Ringside, and other social networking upstarts by making competition impractical.

Instead, by choosing CPAL, Facebook has ensured that it can be open source without anyone actually using its source. Was that the intent?

As OStatic explains, CPAL requires display of an attribution notice on derivative works. This practice, which effectively requires downstream code to carry the original developer(s)’ logo, came to be known as “badgeware.” It was approved by the OSI but continues to be viewed with suspicion within the open-source community.

I’ve written before about how most open-source licenses don’t apply themselves well to the networked economy. Only the OSL, AGPL, and CPAL contemplate web-based services. It’s not surprising that Facebook opted for one of these licenses, but I am surprised it selected the one least apt to lead to developers actually modifying the Facebook platform.

If the point was to protect the Facebook platform from competition (i.e., derivative works), Facebook chose a good license. If it was to encourage development, it chose the wrong license.

… Source:The Open Road

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