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Colin, if I remember correctly, you first ran Tarsnap servers on Ubuntu before you made FreeBSD work on EC2. At what point were you confident enough to switch to FreeBSD?
So... I'd have to check my notes to be sure but I think fall 2011?
He gave them so much free labor
This... they really owe him something, IMHO. Hell, discounted service so he can make a better margin on Tarsnap sounds good to me!
I'm sure I could get away with it and nobody at Amazon would even notice, but it's the principle of the thing.
Netflix is a big FreeBSD user and a big AWS user, do they run FreeBSD on AWS? Would be the obvious sponsor to me as they rely heavily on the infrastructure built by volunteers like Colin
I don’t think they do. Netflix uses FreeBSD specifically for their custom-built CDN/streaming servers, which are hosted directly with ISPs … not on AWS. Their user-facing catalog app, however, runs on Ubuntu servers hosted on AWS. At least that’s what I recall reading here on HN.
The next service I signed up for was "Alexa Web Information Service". Web search as a service, back when "Alexa" was the search company they had acquired, not a voice assistant. By mid-2007 I was (finally) accepted into the EC2 beta. The rest, as they say, is history.
The author calls it a 'joke' that Heroes are just unpaid Amazon employees, but reality doesn't become a joke just because it's funny. The asymmetry here is staggering. I find myself holding back private research because I don't want to provide free R&D for a value-extraction machine that is already efficient enough. The author was at least dependency-driven in their contribution, but outside that kind of dependency,…
The author calls it a 'joke' that Heroes are just unpaid Amazon employees, but reality doesn't become a joke just because it's funny. The asymmetry here is staggering. I find myself holding back private research because I don't want to provide free R&D for a value-extraction machine that is already efficient enough. The author was at least dependency-driven in their contribution, but outside that kind of dependency,…
AFAICT, large saas players can simply implement the software interfaces regardless of business source licenses like what happened to redis, no? Or is there some specific protections for API surfaces that I'm not aware of. I vaguely recall Google v Oracle almost established some protections but then got deferred in later ruling. My memory is hazy on that though...
That said, all these models are trained on the open source code bases presumably, so it would be interesting to see if AI-blackbox reverse engineering actually holds up in court.
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AFAICT, large saas players can simply implement the software interfaces regardless of business source licenses like what happened to redis, no? Or is there some specific protections for API surfaces that I'm not aware of. I vaguely recall Google v Oracle almost established some protections but then got deferred in later ruling. My memory is hazy on that though...
Indeed. And with the frontier AI models it's worse than that. You can literally just have them write test cases for the product you want to clone, then set it loose reverse engineering the code base. That said, all these models are trained on the open source code bases presumably, so it would be interesting to see if AI-blackbox reverse engineering actually holds up in court.
I personally believe it should not and that AI code should NOT be considered a "clean room" method. That said, IANAL.
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The SSPL is not an open-source license.
Yes it is. It plainly meets all the criteria in the definition iff AGPL meets them too.
* https://web.archive.org/web/20230411163802/https://lists.ope...
* https://opensource.org/blog/the-sspl-is-not-an-open-source-l...
* https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Server_Side_Publi...
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Yes it is. It plainly meets all the criteria in the definition iff AGPL meets them too.
The central difference is that SSPL discriminates against specific fields of endeavor, while the AGPL doesn't; see * https://web.archive.org/web/20230411163802/https://lists.ope... * https://opensource.org/blog/the-sspl-is-not-an-open-source-l... * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Server_Side_Publi...