This list provides a quick overview of the landscape of open-source bibliographic software; both where is has been, but more importantly, where it may yet go.
Gobby is a free collaborative editor based on libobby, a library which provides synced document buffers. It supports multiple documents in one session and a multi-user chat. It runs on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and other Unix-like platforms.
The emergence of free software and the phenomenal asuccess of its flagships--the GNU/Linux operating system, the Apache web server, Perl, sendmail, BINF--and many other projects should force us to take a second look at the dominant paradigm we hold about