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Re:Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks by MichaelMoser123 on Monday March 11, 2019 @08:05PM (#19364150)
agpl will not save you if they choose to re-implement the solution.
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Re:Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks by tshaddox on Monday March 11, 2019 @08:16PM (#19364198)
Nor will anything else, I reckon.
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Re:Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks by curt15 on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @05:23AM (#19366504)
That's basically how the first GPL software came into being -- as a (partial) reimplementation of commercially licensed unix.
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Re:Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks by MichaelMoser123 on Monday March 11, 2019 @08:23PM (#19364232)
keeping the system proprietary will make it harder for them to understand what you are doing; but that will also be very limiting move - in the enterprise software space.
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