An Unbelievable Demo
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An Unbelievable Demo
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#2What a great story. Thanks for posting. And being a tall poppy.
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#3I did not see that coming, well worth the read if you just came here for the comments. I won't spoil it for you.
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#4What a great story. Thanks for posting. And being a tall poppy.
Sergey Tselovalnikov is not Brendan Gregg.
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#5Great read, curious to hear what happened after the demo.
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#6Can someone elaborate on why he takes a weird detour in the middle of the post to discourage forks? Is there some particular issue with supporting bpf tooling forks?
As someone who has spent a lot of time in open source, forks are not a problem, they are indicative of a problem.
Don’t cry when people fork and go a different direction, try to figure out why and see if you’re willing to change the project to accommodate them. Dropping chastising “more wood behind fewer arrows” platitudes is pointless when half of the wood wants to break off in a different direction anyway.
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#7I worked at a company that was interfacing with the AOL Instant Messenger network in the early 2000s. Finally the business people got a deal and AOL made us sign NDAs to get access to the official API docs. We were excited because we were using the docs that one of the open source clients had produced from their reverse engineering efforts.
AOL's docs were the same ones from the open source project, with the GPL message intact.
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#8I worked at a company that was interfacing with the AOL Instant Messenger network in the early 2000s. Finally the business people got a deal and AOL made us sign NDAs to get access to the official API docs. We were excited because we were using the docs that one of the open source clients had produced from their reverse engineering efforts. AOL's docs were the same ones from the open source project, with the GPL mess…
Trillian?
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#9Great article. Disgusting behavior. Seems like the sort of experience that sticks with you for years.
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#10Were there any legal repercussions? Was the employee fired? Were you as calm about this at the time as you seem now?... I would be furious!
EDIT: For some reason I assumed OP was the author. Someone with a twitter account should ping him and get him over here to participate in discussion.