From:	Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp,comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject:	Watcom C++ opened?
Organization:	Pin Eight Software http://pineight.8m.com/
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From the press release at http://www.openwatcom.org/

>The Open Watcom compiler products are the first and only
>mass-market commercial compilers to be open sourced

Wrong.  Cygwin GNUPro.

>and, with more than a million lines of source code, the Watcom
>complier products represent one of the largest pools of commercial
>source code of any type ever released under an Open Source license.
>Sybase plans to release the code under an Open Source license that
>will comply with the Open Source Definition (version 1.7), published
>by the Open Source Initiative (http://www.opensource.org).

If it's GPL or compatible, the DJGPP people are going to get a real
kick out of this ;-)

Discussion to c.o.m.djgpp, c.o.m.programmer, or Slashdot:
  http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/1852241&mode=thread
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