Gobby
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Gobby is a free software collaborative real-time editor available on Windows and Unix-like platforms. It is confirmed to run on the Mac OS X platform, albeit not natively but using Apple's X11 instead. It was initially released in June 2005 by the 0x539 dev group.
Currently on version 0.3.0 it features a client-server architecture which supports multiple documents in one session, document synchronisation on request, password protection and an IRC-like chat for communication. Users could choose a colour to highlight the text they have written in a document. Gobby is fully Unicode-aware, provides syntax highlighting for most programming languages and has basic Zeroconf support.
A dedicated server called Sobby is also provided, together with a script which could format saved sessions for the web (e.g. to provide logs of meetings with a collaboratively prepared transscript).
Release candidates of version 0.4.0 were released in mid of April 2006 and feature fully encrypted connections and further usability enhancements. Precompiled builds are currently available for Windows only, although the source is still available for those wanting to compile it on Mac or Linux. For cross-platform compatibility you are encouraged to stick to the 0.3 release series, until 0.4.0 is finally released.
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