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HydraIRC is an Internet Relay Chat client for Windows, created in June 2002 and developed by Dominic Clifton.

The latest version is 0.3.151 and was released on November 19th 2005.

1 History
2 Development
3 Criticism
4 Current Features
5 Future plans
6 See also
7 External links

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History

Stemming from discontent with other client offerings at the time, Dominic originally coded HydraIRC as an IRC client for personal use. It is loosely based on the design of Bersirc. Due to the how quickly it matured into a usable client, Dominic soon released it to the public. Since then, interest has grown in the client due to its quirky quit messages and grass-roots promotion.

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Development

HydraIRC claims to be open-source and uses this as an advertising buzzword, but is developed under a limited-use, non-OSI approved license. Dominic Clifton retains all rights to the code, including any patches or submissions by others. This has kept the development group rather small, with developers having to request source code access directly from Dominic.

HydraIRC is coded using [[C++]] and the Windows Template Library. Patches are accepted and approved only by Dominic.

Development has slowed in early 2005, with heavy dependence on Dominic as the lead developer.

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Criticism

Despite the fact that HydraIRC is abusing the tag of open-source in the eyes of many, the client also features advertising in Quit:messages that cannot be disabled or changed. This has already lead to various users getting banned from channels.

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