Announcement from <http://www.turbopower.com/>:
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TurboPower discontinues retail business
Company announces sweeping open source initiative
Colorado Springs - TurboPower Software Company today announces their immediate withdrawal from the retail component and developer tools market. As part of the move, TurboPower announces its intention to release their award winning component libraries as open source to the maximum extent possible.
"We've been a big part of the developer community for nearly 18 years," said TurboPower President Gary Frerking. "Open sourcing our products seems like an appropriate gesture of appreciation to the community that supported us so well over the years. We sincerely hope these products take on a life of their own and continue to prosper for many years to come."
TurboPower's component libraries cover a wide spectrum of development needs including compression, serial communication, faxing, Internet communication, scheduling, data entry, encryption, and XML manipulation. There are nearly twenty commercial-quality libraries being considered for release, containing hundreds of components and thousands of classes and routines - over one million lines of source code in all!
The process of preparing the libraries for release to open source is already underway, and the current goal is to have the libraries released to the maximum extent possible by the end of January. The resulting open source projects will be hosted on SourceForge.
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