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Open Group Releases DCE 1.2.2 as Free Software

Posted by michael on from the run-with-the-big-boys dept.

lkcl writes "The Open Group announced 12th January 2005 that they are releasing DCE/RPC 1.2.2 as a Free Software Project - under the LGPL. This is a major coup for Free Software: the Distributed Computing Environment is known to be involved in some major projects. There is a mirror at opendce.hands.com which runs rsync, ftp, and there is also a dce122.tar.bz2.torrent bittorrent running as well."

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  1. Re:freedce by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    wow, you submitted the story AND trolled for more page views! Way to go, overselling yesterday's technology!

  2. Re:WTF? by stratjakt · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Basically, Free DCE is DCOM for linux/BSD/OSS.

    I know I already replied. I'm doing it again.

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  3. Re:Open the code, but charge for documentation? by goldspider · · Score: 3, Insightful
    "Is the code really open and free if you have to pay money to learn how to use it?"

    Of course the code is open... unless you consider man pages acceptable documentation.

    And last I knew, those O'Reilly books aren't free either.

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    "Ask not what your country can do for you." --John F. Kennedy
  4. Re:freedce by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    GFS started out free, but at one point, new versions were made proprietary by the major copyright holder, so the opengfs fork was started from the last free version (one of the freedoms important in open source work). But then Redhat bought out the company that owned the copyright to the proprietary version and open-sourced it. Over time, opengfs and gfs had evolved in slightly different directions, so the projects couldn't just merge together again. However, developers from both projects are now talking to eachother about how best to work together in future.