Looking for commercial code gone open source
Garance A Drosihn
drosih at rpi.edu
Fri Aug 13 09:47:04 PDT 2004
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.
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Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad at gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer or gad at freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih at rpi.edu
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