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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. My, how times have changed by loose+canons · · Score: 3, Interesting

    In '93, I was making the big bucks at a defense contractor because I could tell them how/where to use DCE.
    It is interesting to see the difference between the openess of the OSF and the openess of the open source movement [all that gnu software!] begin to blur.
    I hope that exposure of the security code buried in DCE, especially where it uses kerberos, will help polinate other open source projects with improved security features.

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    You call that a troll? I have a whole beltway full of trolls better than that!