by Michelle Lentz

There’s nothing quite like the spirit of collaboration.

Freshbooks, the invoicing/timetracking application used by many freelancers, has open-sourced their iPhone tine-tracking application.

The actual application lets you track time for projects and tasks, write notes for each time entry, and automatically queue up pending submissions when you’re offline.

According to Freshbooks, they’ve open-sourced their code to give back and further development in the iPhone App community. ” We decided to give something back to our customers by sharing what we’ve learnt. We want to support our customers that want to make the leap to becoming iPhone developers.”

They make a point that since the NDA was lifted, very few folks have open-sourced their code. The fear (expectation?) is that this will lead to more web-based apps again, as opposed to native apps.

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