Mastodawn

One of the most important questions I ask myself and basically anyone who'll listen when we are considering some tech product is: What would happen if Oracle bought these nice people?

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Kristian Mar 17

This is why I don't mind using Varnish Enterprise, but I'm reluctant to go all in.

I actually worked for Varnish Software. I know these people personally. I helped hire some of them. I meet them semi-regularly. They are good people.

But if they are acquired by Oracle, it's important for us that the open source Vinyl Cache is still a viable alternative. It's not going to be a drop-in replacement, but it's not going to be a nightmare move either.

That's a pretty OK balance for me.

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Nils Goroll 🕊️

@kly i agree, in particular about the people. i like them and they do good work.

but as much as i try to avoid becoming an arrogant asshole, i would go one step further: what we do in the open, keeping feature parity in many aspects and sometimes exceeding the closed source fork in features and/or performance, even helps those who decide to use the closed fork: only because the alternative exists ready to be fired up is the oracle-ification potential rather limited.
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