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→ Adium for iPhone?

The big news yesterday was that Apple dropped the NDA on released software. I for one have been looking for an excellent IM client for the iPhone that didn’t require me to jailbreak it. I don’t think many truely understand how good this news is other than Apple’s lifting of their iron grip on iPhone development which never should have been done to begin with. It means that open source software is possible for the iPhone. Adium is one of my favorite applications, and is under the GPL — which prevented it from being developed for the iPhone without violating both the NDA and the GPL. Adium likely won’t be developed for the iPhone at least until Leopard is required for it which could still be a while. The fact of the matter is that an application I use daily might someday be on the iPhone. IM will one day finally be done correctly on the iPhone.