How many of you would have thought, five years ago, that we would have:
- http://opensource.nokia.com/
- http://opensource.motorola.com/
- http://www.docomolabs-usa.com/lab_opensource.html
- http://products.sel.sony.com/opensource/source.shtml
- http://www.ericsson.com/technology/opensource/
- http://opensource.adobe.com/
- http://www.novell.com/linux/microsoft/
- http://www.sun.com/software/opensource/java/ and http://www.opensolaris.org/
- http://www.opensource.apple.com/
- http://www.intel.com/opensource/
- http://opensource.hp.com/
- http://opensource.arc.nasa.gov/
- http://www.oracleopensource.com/ and http://www.oracle.com/linux/
- http://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo and http://linux.dell.com/
- http://oss.sgi.com/
- http://www.ibm.com/linux/opensource/
- http://www.vmware.com/download/open_source.html and http://freshmeat.net/projects/vmwaregpl/
- http://code.google.com/
- http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/
I remember all the stereotypes flying around about those of us who believed in Free Software about how little understanding we had of the real software industry. I watched a lot of members of ACIS and the "established" software industry spread them. I even heard Rodrigo Cardoso refer to members of Colibrà as "the Culi-frees" (probably without realizing one of its co-founders, I, was listening).
I guess the above list does show free software really is changing the software industry. What additions would you make?
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