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isn't there already a chat client called babble? I remember reading some paper about it's adoption/usage at IBM years ago.
by jcomis 14y ago
isn't there already a chat client called babble? I remember reading some paper about it's adoption/usage at IBM years ago.
- shrikant 14y agoThere's one we attempted to use in school for p2p messaging over the network. [1] I also came across a chat system for the Plone CMS. [2] [1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/babble-chat/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/babble-chat/ [2] http://babblechat.org/en/latest/ http://babblechat.org/en/latest/
- christopheraden 14y agoYes, there is. Link: http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/wwwr_thinkresearch.nsf/pages/babble498.html http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/wwwr_thinkresearch.nsf/p... Not entirely related to Google's idea, but not completely unrelated either.
- jcomis 14y agoYeah, here's another CSCW '99 http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1242013 http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1242013
- gojomo 14y agoThere was a 'go' language before Google's Go. There were products named 'iPhone' before the Apple iPhone. If the prior use is obscure enough, and you can afford the legal/buyout costs, a name collision isn't necessarily fatal.