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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