From Evil to Good: List of Formerly Closed-source Software

  2008-03-06 20:00:02
Increasing number of software applications are going the free/open-source way these days. Looks like more and more software companies and developers have seen the barriers of closed-source programs and have now fully realized the significance of freedom. Here are some of the most notable software packages which were published under a proprietary software license but later released as free and open source software. 
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