- Linux
- Torvalds was a student, read Tanenbaum's book
- Moved to the US,
- FreeBSD
- derived from BSD source code (academic)
- NetBSD
- derived from BSD source code (academic)
- OpenBSD
- C++
- GCC
- GNU project / Free Software / Copyleft
- Clang/LLVM
- Lattner was a grad student in compilers
- Then developed LLVM at Apple for many years
- Rust
- started by Mozilla, now Rust Foundation with corporate sponsors
- Python
- Guido was a research programmer in the Netherlands (Tanenbaum's lab)
- Moved to the US, the US defense organization CNRI funded Python
- Python funded by various corporations, including Google
- Ruby
- Perl
- PHP
- Hobbyist Origins, then many hosting companies
- sqlite
- Hipp started the project, formed a small corporation around it
- Ruby on Rails
- DHH started it and has maintained it, while also working on commercial SaaS
Servers:
- Redis
- Hobbyist, then Redis Labs?
- Nginx
- Hobbyist, then a company?
- Apache
SCM
- git
- Torvalds started it for Linux
- Subversion
- Mercurial
Editors
Academic
- Lua
- Academic Research sponsored by industry
- Postgres
- a professor's commercial venture shut down?
Named after industrial monopolies:
- SBCL - Steel Bank Common Lisp (CMU)
- SML - Standard ML of New Jersey (Princeton, NJ and Bell Labs in NJ)
Corporate
- Firefox
- Chromium (derived from Chrome)
- AOSP (derived from Android)
TODO
- X.org
- Unix vendors wanted to commodotize Sun ?
- KDE
- GNOME
- Debian
- Ian Murdock, Bruce Perens (Pixar?)
- https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/project-history/project-history.en.txt
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