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Via The Unofficial Apple Weblog:

I haven’t loaded up SubEthaEdit in a while and to be honest, I kind of forgot about it. However, it really is one incredibly cool text editor. Essentially, it’s a back to basics word processor with one massive twist; multiple people can be working collaboratively at the same time. One person serves are the host of the document and opens it up to sharing. It can be shared via Rendezvous so you don’t even need to turn on File Sharing on the comptuer. Then, other people can load up that document as well and work on it at the same time. It uses color coding to show you what changes different people have made. Great for students learning to program and perfect for group work/cooperative learning. Have one person host the agenda for an upcoming meeting and let people pop on to it and add things as necessary. It’s sort of like an offline wiki text editor.

While it may not be Open Source, it is the next best thing; it’s free for non-commercial usage. Install it on every Mac OSX computer in your school. With summer reimaging coming up, add this to the list of programs that you should put on your image.

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