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Posted by timothy on from the how-about-ncsa-mosaic dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A lot of masters and PhD theses are about development of software targeting the solution or the automation of a specific problem. Bioinformatics, for example, has a lot of journals about software tools that are coded in academic environments; some of this software is the final result of a four-year PhD. But my question is, how much of this software will see the light outside the universities? I know of some examples, like BSD, but they are an exception, right? Is there any list of successful software created entirely inside universities' labs that became widely used?"

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  1. A few... by sl3xd · · Score: 5, Informative

    * Kerberos (Widely used, part of Active Directory)
    * X11
    * AFS (Andrew File System)
    * MACH (Used by GNU HURD and OS X)

    And that's just a starting sample.

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