Placemark is going open source and shutting down

Re:Placemark is going open source and shutting down by senderista on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @02:37PM (#38268419)

How many open-sourced codebases from failed startups have succeeded as open-source projects? Can you name a single one?

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Re:Placemark is going open source and shutting down by Wolfbeta on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @02:38PM (#38268445)

Blender

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Re:Placemark is going open source and shutting down by l0b0 on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @02:44PM (#38268533)

Netscape Navigator, which became Mozilla, which became Firefox.

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Re:Placemark is going open source and shutting down by hnbad on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @03:59PM (#38269666)

That's not entirely honest. Mozilla basically was an unfinished rewrite, not the original Netscape Navigator, and it was spun out into a foundation during the acquisition. Netscape didn't simply go bankrupt throw its source code into the void for someone to pick it up.

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Re:Placemark is going open source and shutting down by hobobaggins on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @07:40PM (#38271887)

> That's not entirely honest.

Better to say not correct, rather than implying dishonesty.

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Re:Placemark is going open source and shutting down by miohtama on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @02:50PM (#38268626)

OpenOffice

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Re:Placemark is going open source and shutting down by hobobaggins on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @07:40PM (#38271892)

aka LibreOffice aka StarOffice

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Re:Placemark is going open source and shutting down by jszymborski on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @12:17AM (#38273576)

darn, that _is_ a cool site

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Re:Placemark is going open source and shutting down by tantalic on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @03:01PM (#38268819)

Parse (https://parseplatform.org)

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Re:Placemark is going open source and shutting down by prerok on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @03:42PM (#38269442)

Would Godot count?

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Re:Placemark is going open source and shutting down by dylmye on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @10:02PM (#38272809)

Actual Budget (https://actualbudget.org) - I'm not connected to them but I use their software on a daily basis and it's still well maintained.

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Re:Placemark is going open source and shutting down by apollo1213 on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @10:22AM (#38277595)

https://www.chatwoot.com/

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