[Australia-public-discuss] Re: [free-software-melb] Need examples of innovative Australian software

[Adam Bolte]

Hey Ben,

Great work.

You can probably count some of the great work Rasterman did when he was in
Australia (prior to 1997).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carsten_Haitzler

Regards,
Adam

On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 09:16:50AM +1000, Ben Sturmfels wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> Thank for your overwhelming support of our patents letter!
> 
> We're now taking the next step of preparing a petition that can be
> presented to the Federal House of Reps. This has requirements of being
> on paper and with original signatures. I'll look forward to collecting
> your signature some time soon.
> 
> I'm looking for examples of innovative Australian software (developed
> without patents), preferably earlier than 1992. The earlier the better.
> 
> So far I have:
>  - Trumpet Winsock (internet connection tool, 1993)
>  - HotDog Pro (web page editor, 1995)
>  - rsync (data syncronisation tool, 1996)
>  - netfilter/iptables (firewall tools, 1998)
> 
> What others can you think of?
> 
> Cheers,
> Ben



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