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Freenginx: Core Nginx developer announces fork

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Re: Freenginx: Core Nginx developer announces fork

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> Unfortunately, some new non-technical management at F5 recently decided that they know better how to run open source projects. In particular, they decided to interfere with security policy nginx uses for years, ignoring both the policy and developers’ position.

Ah, I completely forgot F5 was involved in this, probably most of everyone else and F5 gets no money from this. Shouldn't matter to them, do they even have competition in enterprise load balancer space? I spent 9 years of my career managing these devices, they're rock solid and I remember some anecdotes about MS buying them by the truckloads. They should be able to cover someone working on nginx, maybe advertise it more for some OSS goodwill.

Re: Freenginx: Core Nginx developer announces fork

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> Unfortunately, some new non-technical management at F5 recently decided that they know better how to run open source projects. In particular, they decided to interfere with security policy nginx uses for years, ignoring both the policy and developers’ position. Ah, I completely forgot F5 was involved in this, probably most of everyone else and F5 gets no money from this. Shouldn't matter to them, do they even have…

The last two companies I've worked for have paid for Nginx+ since software LB is all we really need.

Handling a few thousand RPS is nothing to nginx, and doesn't require fancy hardware.

That said, it replaced Kemp load balancers, which it seems is the next biggest competitor in the hardware load balancer appliance space.

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