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If you thought the RIAA had cornered the market on heavy-handed, misguided lawsuits, think again. TorrentFreak reports that the Societe civile des Producteurs de Phonogrammes en France (SPPF) plan on pursuing a lawsuit against three US-based companies that develop P2P applications. Vuze, LimeWire, and Shareaza are the applications targeted in the lawsuit. There is a fourth company named that's not a developer, or a P2P site -- it's a repository.

It's actually not just any repository. It is, for many, the repository for open source applications -- Sourceforge.

Slashdot passes on the news of Code_Swarm, a new project from Michael Ogawa, who has been working in the field of software visualization for a while now. The videos that it generates are pretty (here's the one for Apache 2), as we've noted, and they do serve to give you an idea of the pulse of activity in a particular project. You can pick out whether code or documentation commits prevail, as well as see major contributors rise and fall.