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- ahawks, on 10/11/2007, -2/+28Oh my god... an... IRC client... FREE?!? What a revolutionary concept. Who knows, maybe in 5 or 10 years they will release a free web browser too.
- geoffpado, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11Nah, Colloquy still beats it up and down, and it's free. But it's great to see MH giving Linkinus away. Hopefully this will prompt Colloquy to adopt some of L's cooler features, like staying connected all the time.
- calvinator, on 10/11/2007, -5/+13Can't argue with free stuff. Nice work Macheist.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8http://colloquy.info/ is great, too. And it's free.
- AlexFerny, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7best ever is irssi :)
- billturner, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6You could also use Colloquy for free: http://colloquy.info/
- brokenerjago, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4It's not a free old version, it's a free CURRENT version. 1.1 came out two days ago. :)
- ragnar0kk, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5wow there are dozens of free linux irc clients, how did this make the front page!
- SVPirate, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Colloquy would be great if it wasn't full of annoying bugs and weirdnesses, like not redrawing properly (admittedly that is becuase I use Safari 3.0 BETA but still - others have patched them!).
- corporalclegg24, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Yes, i think my link is broken. Any help?
- brokenerjago, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Hi, I dev for Linkinus. We've got 1.1.1 and 1.1.2 and 1.1.3 before 1.2 comes out. It'll be a bit. :)
- ahawks, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Nothing is wrong with investing time and effort into a good software project. Hell, I'm a professional developer myself. I make my money that way.
But come on, it's an IRC client. I've logged on and used IRC before simply by telnetting to the correct port and using the raw commands by hand. It's not a sophisticated piece of software, no matter how many bells and whistles you put on it.
I'm not surprised that they charge for it. I'm surprised that a "free IRC program!" made it to digg's front page just because a bunch of macfags wet themselves over it. - Tordenflesk, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3People talking to each over the internets for free? Gosh darnit!
- brokenerjago, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4Hi there. We're still getting all the kinks worked out with sending licenses and having them work. They should be sent out in a matter of hours. Until then, you can enjoy the 15 day free trial offered with every copy :)
- chromerium, on 10/11/2007, -3/+5Colloquy is a much better client imho.
Also. The market is pretty much saturated with IRC clients. Why on earth would someone want to start writing one. From scratch. Ugh. - ultimathule, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4Nice.
- antitab, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2How does this client compare with Colloquy, which I've been using for awhile and have grown quite fond of?
- posure, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3This actually looks like a pretty good IRC client. I've been looking for one on OS X (I sorely miss mIRC) for a while, and X-Chat Aqua is amazingly terrible (so buggy). Colloquy is too simple for my needs.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Google Colloquy
- K3ITHK, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4They don't even have linkinus on demonoid or in the serial box. GJ macheist.
- mobtek, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Yeah I'll take a free license, it's a good irc app but it's certainly not worth the money when there are so many free irc clients out there.
KDE4 is going to be running natively on mac without X11 and then it's back to the best irc client out there Konversation! - BalooUrsidae, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I'm sorry, I seem to have missed something. If it's free, which version of the GPL is it using again? If it's not using an open license, it's NOT free, as it does NOT respect your freedom to do what you will with the software, but rather of no cost. This is a difference with a *MAJOR* distinction.
- SVPirate, on 10/11/2007, -1/+217,352 left!
- BalooUrsidae, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I looked through their website, and was able to find the source, but where's the license? I didn't find that on their website; generally it's good practice for free software projects to prominently show what license they're using as proof it's really free.
- pipeline19, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1OK, I get the point there. Well said :)
- PowerLlama, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I can't stand colloquy for some reason. Haven't figured out why though. Personally I use X-Chat.
- BalooUrsidae, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Tehre seems to be some evidence that Colloquy is free software. This means if you find a bug, pissing and moaning about the bug being there *WILL NOT GET IT FIXED*. Fix it yourself. :o)
- K3ITHK, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2There are dozens of free osx irc clients as well. This one is usually not free and it is very good, that is why it made the front page.
- championchap, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Umm, the however many millions of WoW players all use IRC.
- AriX, on 10/11/2007, -4/+5Best IRC client ever (imo)
Thanks MacHeist! - SteveMax, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Yeah, because the GPL is the *ONLY* free license. Apache, Mozilla, BSD, MIT... are all proprietary according to the FSF.
The point here is that you get something that usually has a cost without paying that cost. It's not "FSF-free", but it's "my-wallet-won't-get-lighter"-free. Unfortunately, English doesnt have the vocabulary to distinguish what in Latin languages is "gratis" and "livre". - xsuite, on 07/10/2008, -0/+1Shut up and take the free software.
- SVPirate, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2X-Chat Aqua is ugly and very basic, but it works. Colloquy is exactly the opposite but it has glitches, bugs and a slightly wonky UI (I do *not* like the userlist in the channels pane). MacIRSSI I just didn't get on with.
I use IRC a *lot*. If getting a good IRC client involves splitting with 20 bucks (or not in this case) then I'm not too bothered. I'll try this and if I like it I'll buy it when I have to later. - BalooUrsidae, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Everybody can. The only thing more stupid than charging for something that has no natural scarcity (software, ie something infinitely reproducable, thus having no scarcity) is paying for something with no natural scarcity. That being said, there is no dishonor in free software developers requesting donations. Many large projects such as Mozilla (the group behind Firefox and Thunderbird) and Software in the Public Interest (the group behind Debian) exist largely or entirely on donations).
"But don't programmers deserve pay, too?" Yes, they do, when they're providing a service like contract programming, *NOT* for packaging the service as a product. God knows damn near every company with an IT department has at least one program written and maintained in-house, so it's not like there isn't a market for programmers that doesn't involve being socially hostile to the userbase. - BalooUrsidae, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Why not donate the money you'd spend on proprietary software to support the KDE project instead? If you /must/ spend money on software, why not vote with your money?
- zaren, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2I sprug for a reg code for ircle years back, and have stuck with it ever since, because a) I'm a cheap bastard, and b) I haven't seen any other app worth making the effort of swiching to and registering (tons of free IRC apps, but you get what you pay for in that field). Never heard of this app before, but maybe it'll be worth the effort.
- BalooUrsidae, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Binaries newsgroups are obsolete, and killing Usenet's best suited and primary function: High volume mailing list distribution. Binaries considered net-abuse. gmane.* and to a lesser degree the Big 8 have largely missed out on this phenomenon, thankfully.
1971 and 2001 called: They want you to know that binaries groups were obsoleted by FTP and further so by BitTorrent and would like you to join the third millennium already. - BalooUrsidae, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Everybody can. The only thing more stupid than charging for something that has no natural scarcity (software, ie something infinitely reproducable, thus having no scarcity) is paying for something with no natural scarcity. That being said, there is no dishonor in free software developers requesting donations. Many large projects such as Mozilla (the group behind Firefox and Thunderbird) and Software in the Public Interest (the group behind Debian) exist largely or entirely on donations).
"But don't programmers deserve pay, too?" Yes, they do, when they're providing a service like contract programming, *NOT* for packaging the service as a product. God knows damn near every company with an IT department has at least one program written and maintained in-house, so it's not like there isn't a market for programmers that doesn't involve being socially hostile to the userbase. - BalooUrsidae, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1With software, you can get a worse product, but you have to pay more. Open source FTW.
- nekochan, on 10/11/2007, -3/+3the licenses are starting to come in, so check your email :D
- WiseWeasel, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Where else am I supposed to keep abreast of all the anime eps and TV rips in a timely manner? IRC FTW! The perfect compliment to usenet... : P
- t0ny, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1***** Ron Paul. All he did is spam digg.
- posure, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Because the free clients suck.
- jwire4, on 04/04/2009, -0/+0name: Robert
robert@teamrosenfeld.com
I'd love a free Linkinus serial please! :D - notque, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1/me smacks Ernie upside the head with an @ sign
- naota53, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1It looks amazing compared to the relatively GUI-less ones ive used on a MAC.. Awesome Job!
- BalooUrsidae, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1It's free? Really? So, which free software license does it use again?
- atezun, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2Awesome IRC client, best one on the mac.
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