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Re:Apple open-sources FoundationDB by kbumsik on Thursday April 19, 2018 @02:02PM (#16878321)
I'm confused. How they could use FoundationDB when Apple aquired it a long time ago? Did apple sell the software to other companies?
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Re:Apple open-sources FoundationDB by nlavezzo on Thursday April 19, 2018 @02:15PM (#16878480)
FoundationDB was a company that existed in the market, licensing our database technology for quite a while. Licenses don't necessarily terminate upon acquisitions.
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Re:Apple open-sources FoundationDB by panghy on Thursday April 19, 2018 @03:49PM (#16879460)
We worked on the codebase independently (we have escrow). We run petabyte-scale clusters in aws.
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