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by senderista 955 days ago
How many open-sourced codebases from failed startups have succeeded as open-source projects? Can you name a single one?
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Netscape Navigator, which became Mozilla, which became Firefox.
Actual Budget (https://actualbudget.org) - I'm not connected to them but I use their software on a daily basis and it's still well maintained.
Blender
OpenOffice
aka LibreOffice aka StarOffice

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarOffice

Amazingly, there is still a really cool 90's website at https://www.staroffice.com ! You can even buy a neolithic version of StarOffice!

darn, that _is_ a cool site
Would Godot count?