From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 14 03:24:41 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 2766016A4CE for ; Sat, 14 Aug 2004 03:24:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gldis.ca (constans.gldis.ca [66.11.169.73]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCB4A43D39 for ; Sat, 14 Aug 2004 03:24:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gldisater@gldis.ca) Received: from [IPv6:::1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gldis.ca (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i7E3Za5f014919; Fri, 13 Aug 2004 23:35:37 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gldisater@gldis.ca) Message-ID: <411D868B.6020908@gldis.ca> Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 23:27:07 -0400 From: Jeremy Faulkner User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.2 (X11/20040728) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathon McKitrick References: <20040813121022.GB94786@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <20040813121022.GB94786@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 'clamd / ClamAV version 0.65', clamav-milter version '0.60p' cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 03:24:41 -0000 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 Blender (graphics/blender, www.blender3d.org) was originally a commercial project whose parent company shutdown. Blender was purchased by the community and GPL'd. -- Jeremy Faulkner http://www.gldis.ca