Great thread guys. Having just joined the Melb list I'm not really up with the anti-patents campaign, will have to do some reading up on it. An interesting Australian software development story I have a small personal connection to (worked an an intern there late 90s) is what was VET anti-virus, that is now sold under CA's global brand after a buy-out. For a while VET did very well internationally in terms of anti-virus quality while Au-developed, I'm not sure about the CA product these days. It started out as shareware in 1989, though not sure if it was ever open source. A brief history is at: http://www.cybec.com.au/Vet.htm cheers, Patrick. On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Andrew Pam <andrew@sericyb.com.au> wrote:
Ben Sturmfels wrote:
I'm looking for examples of innovative Australian software (developed without patents), preferably earlier than 1992. The earlier the better.
Most obviously, Eric A. Young and Tim J. Hudson's SSLeay (the basis for the globally fundamental OpenSSL), developed in Australia specifically because the RSA patents weren't effective in this country.
Andrew
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