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Cash, apparently. I like how Wilson Sonsini advised F5 in the purchase while firm heir Peter Sonsini invested in Nginx corp. Good times for old money in the Valley.
How does a random person become part of this scene?
First time I heard of this company. Their website is in the highest order of marketing speak, but actually offering nothing much. Note to self: security services are a nice way to milk governments & corporations. In any case, I'm glad that Nginx is still available for free and the project will continue to have funding in the future from what looks like a cashed-up company. Besides, if it doesn't work out, it can alwa…
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What is interesting is that we are seeing people in other industries shamed for hiring people in unpaid or underpaid jobs and even people shamed for taking those jobs. I wonder if that is something that will ever happen in the software industry. Open source software is clearly a net positive overall. However is it a net negative for the industry when enterprise developers rely on open source software without demandin…
I think a lot of it truly is passion. Interns have goals that typically don't align with the company they go to work for. That's why they take crap pay. They get to not care and in return the company doesn't have to care about them! Everybody wins, and it's a choice all around. So it's mutually agreeable that the intern will put in some effort and get some reward. Speaking for my own open source projects; There are a…
In my company an intern conducted research on scalability - creating tools to measure and monitor the software in the mean time. So not only does the company have some neat monitoring tools now, the intern actually found a bottleneck and improved the product. The company is now offering her a contract...
Caring about eachother doesn't have much to do with it.
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Surely it doesn't need to—either you accept the license or you don't accept the license. If you don't accept the license, you can't use the software. I'd imagine that the challenge with the AGPL is catching and suing the non-compliant services.
If the source is available, I absolutely can use the software—regardless of license. The only thing preventing me from doing so would be either criminal or civil law, and while IANAL, I don’t believe there are criminal penalties for license violations. The copyright holder would have to sue me, and prove that I violated the license, and then they might be able to get a court to force me to stop, pay them, or both. I…
Nobody is suggesting that an AGPL licence violation would result in a criminal penalty, but if you got caught you may be forced to release any changes you made to the source code. And you could lose the ability to use the software in future—if your business relied on it you might be screwed.
Personally I think the AGPL is stupid, but people are free to pick whatever license terms they like for their copyrighted works. Whether I like it or not is irrelevant.
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not the case for AGPL: then it's everyone who has access to your online service built with the code.
I don't think it works like that. This is a copyright license at its heart. It is a contract between the copyright-owner and the service owner. The end user is just 3rd party.
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Dataflow is based on oss Apache airflow. I don’t know how well it’s doing in the wild but every IT admin I’ve worked with are super excited to use it.
Airflow and Dataflow are not related. Google open sourced dataflow as Beam - https://beam.apache.org
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They barely have any revenue and they're struggling. It's probably one of the next companies to be acquired in the coming years.
I'm one of the founders of HashiCorp. We don't publicly talk about exact numbers, but we broke through 9-figures last year, and a very low % of that is support (its mostly enterprise software). That also isn't using any accounting tricks (such as a ton of multi-year deals). We're doing very well. We're in no talks to be acquired, either. I can't prove any of this, you'd have to take my word for it! I guess if we ever…