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Re: OFFTOPIC: Opendoc, SOM, Bento, will probably be GPL'd!



>  As Apple and IBM no longer supports Opendoc, the Components Integration
> Labs is being disolved. And they plan to distribute the soft `under a
> license scheme similar to the free model used for the Linux operating
> system'. Wow!
> 
>  See: http://www.macweek.com/mw_1113/nw_opendoc.html
> 

That would be wicked, there's a lot of good, useable technology in there.  
I like this trend of turning the source code of proprietary systems that
lost the market share battle over to the free software community.

What's next?  OS/2?  MacOS?  Maybe the ROM code for the Apple II?

Cheers,

 - Jim 


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