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Welcome the decision. But a honest question - has there been any predecessors for a software succeeding after being open sourced from closed? I can think of Fir
by blntechie 15y ago
Welcome the decision. But a honest question - has there been any predecessors for a software succeeding after being open sourced from closed? I can think of Firefox but nothing else.
- erydo 15y agoBlender comes to mind. It was opensourced (ransomware) around 2001 IIRC, and it's still a quite healthy project. I'm sure there are other good examples. You might also count open source games relying on id's engines.
- buu700 15y agoStarOffice/OpenOffice is a major example as well. Java, WebKit, Reddit, Tornado, Cassandra, and probably tons of other projects began as closed source releases/deployments.