Orbiter Space Flight Simulator is now open source

Re:Orbiter Space Flight Simulator is now open source by larodi on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @10:52AM (#27984505)

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?

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Re:Orbiter Space Flight Simulator is now open source by jylam on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @11:05AM (#27984679)

Blender, Firefox and OpenOffice have, from the top of my head.

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Re:Orbiter Space Flight Simulator is now open source by antod on Thursday July 29, 2021 @01:26AM (#27993061)

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)

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Re:Orbiter Space Flight Simulator is now open source by stackedinserter on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @06:02PM (#27990322)

Blender didn't start as opensource project.

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Re:Orbiter Space Flight Simulator is now open source by monocasa on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @07:14PM (#27990955)

That's what the person you're replying to is asserting as well.

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Re:Orbiter Space Flight Simulator is now open source by starseeker on Saturday July 31, 2021 @12:52PM (#28019766)

Well, there's a lot - a few I happen to be familiar with:

Maxima: https://maxima.sourceforge.io/

Axiom: http://www.axiom-developer.org/

OpenCascade: https://dev.opencascade.org/

BRL-CAD: https://brlcad.org/

GRASS: https://grass.osgeo.org/about/history/

illumos: https://illumos.org/

Docker: https://github.com/docker

Torque: https://github.com/GarageGames/Torque3D

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Re:Orbiter Space Flight Simulator is now open source by outworlder on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @02:28PM (#27987614)

Better than just dying and taking the source with it.

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Re:Orbiter Space Flight Simulator is now open source by pabs3 on Thursday July 29, 2021 @06:23AM (#27994791)

Synfig Animation Studio

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