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mijoharastoday at 12:12 PM1 replyview on HN

This article links to a previous one[0] (by Poul) which states:

> I will also state for the record, that there are no hard feelings between Varnish Software and the FOSS project.

I wonder if that is still the case now. (this article is fairly diplomatically written, but I'd imagine it must be pretty frustrating)

[0] https://vinyl-cache.org/organization/20-years.html#years


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Yokohiiitoday at 2:14 PM

Well I guess the enterprise side of varnish was quite beneficial to him (and the core devs) over that time. If something gives you financial freedom over 10+ years to work on a thing you love, you can't be mad at all of it.

But if FOSS is deeply encoded into your DNA, you become pretty protective once you realize your project may become extinct sometimes in the future.