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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