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Date:      Tue, 17 Aug 2004 11:47:40 -0600
From:      "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Looking for commercial code gone open source
Message-ID:  <890EAA5F-F075-11D8-998A-003065A70D30@shire.net>
In-Reply-To: <411D87B3.2050808@gldis.ca>
References:  <20040813121022.GB94786@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <411D868B.6020908@gldis.ca> <411D87B3.2050808@gldis.ca>

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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.
>
> jm
>

Apple's Darwin OS probably qualifies...  Came from NextStep / OpenStep 
(commercial)...  While lots of it itself comes from opensource (BSD 
land etc), there were significant changes / updates in its commercial 
version (like netinfo etc)

Chad



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