Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 12:43:47 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Looking for commercial code gone open source Message-ID: <p06110424bd429d877164@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20040813121022.GB94786@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20040813121022.GB94786@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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At 1:10 PM +0100 8/13/04, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: >Does anyone know where there are any web-accessible examples of >large or medium sized commercial software products that have been >open sourced? > >I'd like to see some examples of code that were not written from >the beginning with the intention of being open source. OpenAFS might qualify, or it might not. I think it started out more as a university research project, and then turned into a commercial entity which IBM eventually bought. Several years later IBM decided to open-source all the code that they had the rights to open-source. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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