Marinetti Open Source Project

[mark.REMOVE.percival@videotron.ca (Mark Percival)]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- 17TH AUGUST 2000 
FROM: RICHARD BENNETT 

I am announcing that I intend to release Marinetti, my 
proprietary TCP/IP stack for the Apple IIGS, as open source. 

My time for Marinetti development at the moment is limited, yet 
there are a number of projects in the Apple II community which 
need some changes to the code. Additionally, my test set up here 
is not currently adequate enough for testing a Marinetti production 
environment. 

The intention is to release parts of the source for developers to 
work on, and to feed that back into the next/current Marinetti 
product. If this process works well, then more source will be 
released, until the entire code is freely available. I also see 
this as an interesting test of open sourcing an Apple II product, 
which, if works, could be adapted to other currently idle 
Apple II products. 

There are a number of developers already involved in this project, 
and they are currently helping me to develop a plan for release 
and maintenance of the code. 

Want to help? 

The Marinetti Open Source Project has a home page (with very 
little on it at this stage) at: http://www.apple2.org/mosp 

This announcement was originally posted in Delphi's A2Pro forum. 
You may publish this announcement, as long as the entire 
post is kept intact, from the "FOR IMMEDIATE..." down to the 
copyright message below, inclusive. 

COPYRIGHT (C) 2000, RICHARD BENNETT
Mark R. Percival
Montreal, Quebec

An Apple II fanatic since 1979.