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<DIV><SPAN class=437044903-25112002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Why
pay for open source projects? Are the contributing OS entities being paid
any monies?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Rod Cope
[mailto:rod.cope@ejbsolutions.com]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, November 21, 2002
7:46 PM<BR><B>To:</B> jdom-interest@jdom.org<BR><B>Subject:</B>
[jdom-interest] JDOM included in Out-of-the-Box Open Source
distribution<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
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<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">I thought you would like to know that JDOM is being
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<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">distributed as part of Out-of-the-Box, a collection of
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<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">over 50 Open Source projects targeted at Java
developers. </SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">You can find a single table that shows almost all of
the<BR>projects we've integrated and a short description of<BR>each
here: <A
href="http://www.ejbsolutions.com/what-we-give-you.html">http://www.ejbsolutions.com/what-we-give-you.html</A>
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<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Rod Cope</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">EJB Solutions, Inc.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">rod.cope@ejbsolutions.com</SPAN></FONT></P>
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