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#use wml::ossp area=doc:summary <title>Documentation</title> <subtitle>Project Summary</subtitle> <h1>Project Summary</h1> <p> OSSP is a fully non-profit <a href="http://www.opensource.org/"><b>Open Source Software</b></a> project, founded by <a href="http://www.engelschall.com/">Ralf S. Engelschall</a> in 1998. The goal is the implementation of high-quality Unix software components, ranging from <a href="$(ROOT)/pkg/lib/sa/">networking</a>, <a href="$(ROOT)/pkg/lib/pth/">multi-threading</a> and <a href="$(ROOT)/pkg/lib/act/">algorithmic</a> libraries to <a href="$(ROOT)/pkg/tool/lmtp2nntp/">networking</a> servers and <a href="$(ROOT)/pkg/tool/shtool/">development</a> tools. <p> OSSP itself actually can be considered a meta-project, consisting of numerous <a href="$(ROOT)/pkg/"><b>projects</b></a>. Each project is a solution to a particular problem and usually released separately. At a later stage, all sub-projects together could form something like a <i>Next Generation Internet Server Platform</i> (NGISP). <p> But the NGISP goal is just a long-term one. The short-term goals of OSSP are to provide the individual software components for making the life easier of developers in the Internet Services field.