With the early initiatives
of Andrew S. Tanenbaum (for more information on Minix refer to official
Minix page) and Linus
Torvalds, Unix like systems found their way in our homes. Open sourced software
became freely accessible foreveryone interested. Especially Linux has evolved
to one of the most stable and compatible Unix like operating systems for Intel
based platforms. Valueable development tools, e.g. the compiler family
GCC are of the best available
in the market place. They are also available for dozens of platforms due to
their open source character. There is more to say about Linux, but this would
be too much information even for our web server. Anyway, the open source
community speaks for itself.
Linux is one of the major development systems at
 . By using some of the
open sourced development tools such as the GCC compiler family or the libraries
of the
Apache Jakarta Project
, most of our applications remain highly portable, although some of them follow
a specific hardware dedication. To lower development cost and raise usability
for our customers, we make use of modules released under the LGPL or similar.
All such packages are then included with source code and delivered to our
customers at no additional cost. If a library requires code modification, the
changes are published according to the license terms. Beside this, some of our
company team members release their own tools, libraries and other
contributions to the
open source community.
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