BB Open-source

From: Douglas G. Danforth <"Douglas>
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 12:54:36 -0500

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Fyodor Tkachov wrote:
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> With BlackBox to be open-sourced very soon now, there will be more chances to make the necessary modifications.

I hope that there will always exist one 'official' version of BB & CP
and that any variants would be clearly stated as such.

I also assume that the main reason for making BB open-source is to
encourage its distribution to platforms other than Microsoft. This I
strongly endorse.

The main reason I have stuck with Microsoft is due to the availability
of Blackbox. If Blackbox were available on the Apple product lines and
or the Linux forms (with desktop) then I would probably migrate away
from Microsoft (or at least do cross platform development).

Best regards,

Doug
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