Freenginx: Core Nginx developer announces fork
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Re: Freenginx: Core Nginx developer announces fork
#2Anyone have more info about the changes nginx made?
Re: Freenginx: Core Nginx developer announces fork
#3> 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
#4I'm hoping the fork will allow having code comments.
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#5> 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.
Re: Freenginx: Core Nginx developer announces fork
#6Is called "rage-fork" perhaps this. So proposed title: nginx dev rage-forks over security disagreement with boss company
But then perhaps he also has every right to do it, even though AFAIR the original author was somebody else.
Re: Freenginx: Core Nginx developer announces fork
#7There is no news other than this individual post. I wish he could describe it more. It says it is free but where is the github page for it?
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#8wondering also whether Igor and Maxim are ok, what w/ the geopolitical situation there.
Re: Freenginx: Core Nginx developer announces fork
#9There is no news other than this individual post. I wish he could describe it more. It says it is free but where is the github page for it?
Source code repo is here, not everything need a Github account to be free: http://freenginx.org/hg/nginx
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#10There is no news other than this individual post. I wish he could describe it more. It says it is free but where is the github page for it?
They don’t use GitHub