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another open source project is born only after it is basically dead or is about to die in its closed-source form. out of curiosity - which other open source pr

by larodi 5y ago

another open source project is born only after it is basically dead or is about to die in its closed-source form. out of curiosity - which other open source projects do you know, that have not started as open source?

jylam 5y ago
Blender, Firefox and OpenOffice have, from the top of my head.
- stackedinserter 5y ago
  Blender didn't start as opensource project.
  - monocasa 5y ago
    That's what the person you're replying to is asserting as well.
- antod 5y ago
  Firefox is debatable. Netscape 6 which it descended from was a total rewrite and never really had much/any closed source release history to it (unlike earlier Netscape releases)
outworlder 5y ago
Better than just dying and taking the source with it.
pabs3 5y ago
Synfig Animation Studio
starseeker 5y ago
Well, there's a lot - a few I happen to be familiar with: Maxima: https://maxima.sourceforge.io/ https://maxima.sourceforge.io/ Axiom: http://www.axiom-developer.org/ http://www.axiom-developer.org/ OpenCascade: https://dev.opencascade.org/ https://dev.opencascade.org/ BRL-CAD: https://brlcad.org/ https://brlcad.org/ GRASS: https://grass.osgeo.org/about/history/ https://grass.osgeo.org/about/history/ illumos: https://illumos.org/ https://illumos.org/ Docker: https://github.com/docker https://github.com/docker Torque: https://github.com/GarageGames/Torque3D https://github.com/GarageGames/Torque3D