Back inOctober we reported on
graphics company Xara’s plans to open the source code of their flagship product Xara Xtreme and bring it to Linux and
Mac OS X. At the time no actual code had been released and only a "proof-of-concept" build was available. As
of last week, however, the full source code is
available under the GPL, paving the way for anyone to run the full-featured vector graphics suite for free,
assuming they run Linux or OS X. Xara still plans to make money by selling the Windows version and a commercial version
for Linux or Mac if the demand exists, but I wonder how long it’ll be before someone backports this open source version
to Windows. Head over to Xara’s open source site for videos, screenshots,
FAQS, and of course the download.