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Collaborative text editing with Gobby (Linux.com)

Linux.com looks at Gobby for cross-platform, collaborative editing. "Wikis and groupware are great for distributed collaboration between teams, but they lack the ability to provide real-time feedback to teams working on a shared document. Collaborative editors, on the other hand, give multiple users a convenient way to work together on one or more documents. Mac users have had SubEthaEdit for some time, but Gobby is the first collaborative editor for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X users. Let's take a look at how you can start editing documents with your friends and co-workers using Gobby."
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Collaborative text editing with Gobby (Linux.com)

Posted Jul 11, 2006 21:28 UTC (Tue) by rickmoen (subscriber, #6943) [Link]

I applaud Joe Brockmeier for covering this important and increasingly prominent category. Gobby is (to my knowledge) unique in, as Joe says, covering all of the cited OSes. However, worth mentioning as an additional IETF ZeroConf / Rendezvous / Bonjour / whatever collaborative editing environment is the similar KDE project, MateEdit.

I attempt to keep track of ZeroConf software for Linux on my knowledgebase.

Rick Moen
rick@linuxmafia.com

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