Here is a new ICQ which may well be embedded in the category "release late that nobody thought would happen": the instant messaging program with icon more florid face of the earth today launched a beta version of its client for Linux.
Ok, is not specific to Linux, it's just an Adobe Air application, but is still a worthwhile effort. Early indications that the program would be launched on the site appeared Tips Ubuntu, which yesterday received a screenshot of a player denouncing the existence of the program. But this morning the page was already in the air and the program is now available for download.
Whether this will cause the program to take back millions and millions of users around the world, I doubt it. But serves to show that ICQ is not dead yet. Or that they at least found a way to please the users of the platform Penguin without having to program it for something native.
Among the other items that are in the same category of arrears and / or unlikely, we can list Duke Nukem Forever and Internet Explorer for Mac OS. The latter tends to more unlikely than to late.
