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<title>Welcome!</title>

<b>Welcome to OSSP, the world of Unix Software Technologies<i>!</i></b>

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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.

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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>. 

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To implement such a lot of high-quality Unix software components
requires a great amount of time and man-power. So OSSP puts really a
lot of private work on its idealistic developers, but nevertheless
makes all of its results freely available to the interested public.
Without <a href="$(ROOT)/com/sponsors.html"><b>sponsoring</b></a> through <a
href="$(ROOT)/com/donations.html">donations</a> from many individuals
and companies all this would be not possible, of course.

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Current <a href="$(ROOT)/com/sponsors.html">Sponsors</a>:<p>
<a href="http://www.engelschall.com/">Ralf S. Engelschall</a><br>
<a href="http://www.lotterer.net/thomas/">Thomas Lotterer</a><br>
<font color="#993333">Honscha</font> <a href="http://pliant.cx/">Münzen</a><br>
<a href="http://www.nur-mietwagen.de/">Oliver Bornhak</a><br>
<a href="http://www.bauernhofurlaub-ostallgaeu.de/">Eva Lachenmayer</a><br>
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