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Date:      Fri, 13 Aug 2004 16:39:56 -0400
From:      Paul Mather <paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu>
To:        Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Looking for commercial code gone open source
Message-ID:  <1092429595.27744.97.camel@zappa.Chelsea-Ct.Org>
In-Reply-To: <20040813165845.C99D516A4D6@hub.freebsd.org>
References:  <20040813165845.C99D516A4D6@hub.freebsd.org>

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On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 13:10:22 +0100, Jonathon McKitrick
<jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> 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.

OCLC's SiteSearch was commercial but has now been turned over to the
open source community.  It is at http://opensitesearch.sourceforge.net
(SiteSearch is a Z39.50-enabled digital library/OPAC application.)

It also seems like Firebird (/usr/ports/databases/firebird) started life
as the commercial database InterBase.

Cheers,

Paul.
-- 
e-mail: paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu

"Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production
 deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid."
        --- Frank Vincent Zappa



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