Six big projects that went open-source | Linux Today

Six big projects that went open-source

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Jon Gold
Nov 9, 2016

Making big software and hardware projects open-source is an increasingly popular thing to do, whether you’re a big company, a small company, or even the government. Here’s a sampling of the latest major projects to hit the open-source realm.

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Jon Gold

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