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that worried me too - but Im hooked :D the fact I can hook my mac, PC, dev machine and laptop (OSX,Vista,Fedora10,XP) to one KB/Mouse is so great!

> the fact that the last release seems to be from 2006 worries me a bit

Me too, but Synergy finally convinced me that it's possible to build amazingly good software that lasts.

I keep meaning to pick up the synergy source code and improve it a bit. Things I'd like to see:

* Make it peer to peer instead of client/server, keyboard & mouse events from all peers are shared, not just the server's

* Use mDNS (e.g. Bonjour) to auto-detect nearby peers and auto-connect to known ones. Also, use some kind of authentication - you don't want random people on a public wifi to be able to get access to your clipboard because you forgot to quit your synergy client.

Alas, I haven't had the time. Maybe this summer...

I'd be willing to sponsor this.

I'd love to shuffle around my project priorities in return for sponsorship. :) I've emailed you at m@..., my email address is in my HN profile in case it gets filtered or whatever.