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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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Post by jbverschoor »

pablopr3 wrote: post #51
qwertox wrote: post #47

Time for me to slowly start looking for an alternative. There was a time when I wanted to move away from it and was eyeing HAProxy, but the lack of the ability to serve static files didn't convince me. Then there was Traefik, but I never looked too much into it, because Nginx is working just fine for me. My biggest hope was Cloudflare's Rust-based Pingora pre-announcement, which was then never published as Open Sourc…

Maybe take a look at Caddy ( https://caddyserver.com/ )

Well, until you read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39351026

Re: Freenginx: Core Nginx developer announces fork

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Post by bklyn11201 »

stemc43 wrote: post #61
ComputerGuru wrote: post #35

This isn’t just “a core nginx dev” — this is Maxim Dounin! He is nginx. I would consider putting his name in the title. (And if I were F5, I’d have given him anything he asked for to not leave, including concessions on product vision.) That said, I’m not sure how much leg he has to stand on for using the word nginx itself in the new product’s name and domain…

> not sure how much leg he has to stand on for using the word nginx itself in the new product’s name and domain pretty sure they can't really do anything to him in Russia. Russia and US don't recognize each others patents, same as China.

Right, they will just go after the domain forcing either a rename or a move to a Russian domain

Re: Freenginx: Core Nginx developer announces fork

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Post by cellularmitosis »

karolist wrote: post #37
reactordev wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's a world of software out there that's not on github or using git. "I don't always git clone, but when I do, it's hg clone"

I have mixed feeling about github's dominance. They have created facebook for devs and uplifted collaboration of software to a high level, but I can't help but feel like I'm renting storage space in someone else's private shop when I use them. Yes you get engagement, yes you get one link to share your dev profile and timeline grid in CV, but it's a for profit business that is run by MS.

I'm much less concerned with this because github seems to have to lowest vendor lock-in of any platform. If you want to switch platforms, it should be as easy as changing your upstream and push. Switching from MySpace to Facebook never looked like that.

Re: Freenginx: Core Nginx developer announces fork

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Post by karolist »

mech422 wrote: post #60
karolist wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have mixed feeling about github's dominance. They have created facebook for devs and uplifted collaboration of software to a high level, but I can't help but feel like I'm renting storage space in someone else's private shop when I use them. Yes you get engagement, yes you get one link to share your dev profile and timeline grid in CV, but it's a for profit business that is run by MS.

>>I have mixed feeling about github's dominance. Yep - I remember what happened with Source Forge/VA Linux. I actually paid for github when it first came out, just to fund it. Still makes me nervous tbh

Good old times, freshmeat.net also ;)

Re: Freenginx: Core Nginx developer announces fork

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Post by karolist »

cellularmitosis wrote: post #73
karolist wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have mixed feeling about github's dominance. They have created facebook for devs and uplifted collaboration of software to a high level, but I can't help but feel like I'm renting storage space in someone else's private shop when I use them. Yes you get engagement, yes you get one link to share your dev profile and timeline grid in CV, but it's a for profit business that is run by MS.

I'm much less concerned with this because github seems to have to lowest vendor lock-in of any platform. If you want to switch platforms, it should be as easy as changing your upstream and push. Switching from MySpace to Facebook never looked like that.

Sure you can switch, will others too? That's the problem, when something gets dominating critical mass individual actions stop to matter. You can replace Google with another search engine as easily as opening a new tab, does the dominance make it any less scary?

Re: Freenginx: Core Nginx developer announces fork

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Post by ironmagma »

687m786m78 wrote: post #75

It is scary to think about how much of web relies on projects maintained by 1 or 2 people.

Not that scary when you remember there are some systems that haven't been significantly updated for decades (e.g. the Linux TTY interface). A lot of stuff can just coast indefinitely, you'll get quirks but people will find workarounds. Also this is kind of why everything is ever so slightly broken, IMHO.
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