Colayco (2004年2月6日). “Microsoft pledges Allegiance to its fanbase”. gamespot.com. 2013年12月10日時点のオリジナルよりアーカイブ。2011年7月22日閲覧。 “The release of the source code came in response to the enthusiasm of Allegiance's small-but-dedicated fanbase. Microsoft's Joel Dehlin commented that the development team has "been amazed at the level to which some of the Allegiance fans have remained hard-core. We’re astounded at the progress that has been made at creating new factions, hosting new servers, replacing authentication, etc. It seems that Allegiance hasn't really died. With that in mind, we’re releasing the Allegiance source code to the community."”
Largent (2003年10月8日). “Homeworld Source Code Released”. www.insidemacgames.com. 2013年10月12日時点のオリジナルよりアーカイブ。2012年11月24日閲覧。 “With the release of Homeworld 2 for the PC, Relic Entertainment has decided to give back to their impressive fan community by releasing the source code to the original Homeworld.”
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Proffitt (2000年10月13日). “StarOffice Code Released in Largest Open Source Project”. linuxtoday.com. 2013年10月16日時点のオリジナルよりアーカイブ。2013年1月10日閲覧。 “Sun's joint effort with CollabNet kicked into high gear on the OpenOffice Web site at 5 a.m. PST this morning with the release of much of the source code for the upcoming 6.0 version of StarOffice. According to Sun, this release of 9 million lines of code under GPL is the beginning of the largest open source software project ever.”
Netscape Communications (1999年4月1日). “Netscape Celebrates First Anniversary of Open Source Software Release To mozilla.org” (Press Release). PRNewswire Services. 2014年3月26日時点のオリジナルよりアーカイブ。2014年12月21日閲覧。 “[...]The organization that manages open source developers working on the next generation of Netscape's browser and communication software. This event marked a historical milestone for the Internet as Netscape became the first major commercial software company to open its source code, a trend that has since been followed by several other corporations. Since the code was first published on the Internet, thousands of individuals and organizations have downloaded it and made hundreds of contributions to the software. Mozilla.org is now celebrating this one-year anniversary with a party Thursday night in San Francisco.”
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Bell (2009年10月1日). “Opening the Source of Art”. Technology Innovation Management Review. 2014年3月30日時点のオリジナルよりアーカイブ。2012年12月30日閲覧。 “[...]that no further patches to the title would be forthcoming. The community was predictably upset. Instead of giving up on the game, users decided that if Activision wasn't going to fix the bugs, they would. They wanted to save the game by getting Activision to open the source so it could be kept alive beyond the point where Activision lost interest. With some help from members of the development team that were active on fan forums, they were eventually able to convince Activision to release Call to Power II's source code in October of 2003.”
Bell (2009年10月1日). “Opening the Source of Art”. Technology Innovation Management Review. 2014年3月30日時点のオリジナルよりアーカイブ。2012年12月30日閲覧。 “[...]that no further patches to the title would be forthcoming. The community was predictably upset. Instead of giving up on the game, users decided that if Activision wasn't going to fix the bugs, they would. They wanted to save the game by getting Activision to open the source so it could be kept alive beyond the point where Activision lost interest. With some help from members of the development team that were active on fan forums, they were eventually able to convince Activision to release Call to Power II's source code in October of 2003.”
Largent (2003年10月8日). “Homeworld Source Code Released”. www.insidemacgames.com. 2013年10月12日時点のオリジナルよりアーカイブ。2012年11月24日閲覧。 “With the release of Homeworld 2 for the PC, Relic Entertainment has decided to give back to their impressive fan community by releasing the source code to the original Homeworld.”
Colayco (2004年2月6日). “Microsoft pledges Allegiance to its fanbase”. gamespot.com. 2013年12月10日時点のオリジナルよりアーカイブ。2011年7月22日閲覧。 “The release of the source code came in response to the enthusiasm of Allegiance's small-but-dedicated fanbase. Microsoft's Joel Dehlin commented that the development team has "been amazed at the level to which some of the Allegiance fans have remained hard-core. We’re astounded at the progress that has been made at creating new factions, hosting new servers, replacing authentication, etc. It seems that Allegiance hasn't really died. With that in mind, we’re releasing the Allegiance source code to the community."”
Netscape Communications (1999年4月1日). “Netscape Celebrates First Anniversary of Open Source Software Release To mozilla.org” (Press Release). PRNewswire Services. 2014年3月26日時点のオリジナルよりアーカイブ。2014年12月21日閲覧。 “[...]The organization that manages open source developers working on the next generation of Netscape's browser and communication software. This event marked a historical milestone for the Internet as Netscape became the first major commercial software company to open its source code, a trend that has since been followed by several other corporations. Since the code was first published on the Internet, thousands of individuals and organizations have downloaded it and made hundreds of contributions to the software. Mozilla.org is now celebrating this one-year anniversary with a party Thursday night in San Francisco.”
Proffitt (2000年10月13日). “StarOffice Code Released in Largest Open Source Project”. linuxtoday.com. 2013年10月16日時点のオリジナルよりアーカイブ。2013年1月10日閲覧。 “Sun's joint effort with CollabNet kicked into high gear on the OpenOffice Web site at 5 a.m. PST this morning with the release of much of the source code for the upcoming 6.0 version of StarOffice. According to Sun, this release of 9 million lines of code under GPL is the beginning of the largest open source software project ever.”