From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 13 14:06:33 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75E6016A4CE for ; Fri, 13 Aug 2004 14:06:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.scls.lib.wi.us (mail.scls.lib.wi.us [198.150.40.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0716243D41 for ; Fri, 13 Aug 2004 14:06:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nalists@scls.lib.wi.us) Received: from sclpc01.scls.lib.wi.us (sclpc01.scls.lib.wi.us [172.26.2.225]) by mail.scls.lib.wi.us (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i7DE5EkK090672; Fri, 13 Aug 2004 09:05:14 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from nalists@scls.lib.wi.us) Message-Id: <6.1.1.1.0.20040813085655.04d2be60@mail.scls.lib.wi.us> X-Sender: nalists@mail.scls.lib.wi.us X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.1.1.1 Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 09:05:12 -0500 To: Jonathon McKitrick , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Greg Barniskis In-Reply-To: <20040813121022.GB94786@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20040813121022.GB94786@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Subject: Re: Looking for commercial code gone open source X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 14:06:33 -0000 At 07:10 AM 8/13/2004, 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. While it's not available yet, Sun did announce recently that Solaris would become open source. They also wouldn't commit to a date when that would happen; I suspect they're quite busy trying to clean up the kinds of messy "not intended for public view" things that you're probably looking for. Someone else already mentioned StarOffice. Don't forget the Netscape -> Mozilla code path as well. I assume you can still get the original commercial code base somewhere. -------------------------------------- Greg Barniskis Library Interchange Network (LINK) South Central Library System (SCLS) (608) 266-6348 www.scls.lib.wi.us