What do you try to imply with your statement?
FLOSS licenses allow software to be used for any purpose. This is a good thing, after seeing lists of "undesireable countries" in EULAs.
Source? I fail to see any similarities between the two.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=520077
Was it not? I find it hard to find sources, but I realllllly remember it started off as a heavily modified fork of Apache 1.3.
> nginx is not Apache fork. I know well enough Apache 1.3 and I've got some ideas from Apache such as memory pools, configuration methods, processing phases, etc., but there is no line of Apache code. As to OCSP, I'm going to implement it in the next 2.0 version.
edit: Assuming "brianm" is Brian McCallister, he would be a former ASF board member. If "jimjag" is Jim Jagielski, that would be one of the ASF founders.
not a bad sum for apache 1.3 fork...
In 2019, Rambler tried to take over Nginx claiming dubious copyright infringement, putting the main author [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Sysoev|Igor Sysoev(w)] at risk.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=520077
Was it not? I find it hard to find sources, but I realllllly remember it started off as a heavily modified fork of Apache 1.3.
I don't know that he was trying to imply anything. But I find it useful information, since there are lots of companies with IT Security departments that will more heavily scrutinized software based on its geographic origin.
When I joined my company, one of the first things I was tasked with was determining the origin of all of the software installed by my predecessor. Some of it got chucked out because it was from certain places.
And this was looong before anyone started dropping bombs in Kyiv.
It's not weird for a company in the UK to favor UK software, or a company in Japan to favor Japanese software, etc.
Did you learn from chatGPT how to convicingly tell completely made up and false information?
What part do you think is wrong? I must say you are quite creative with insults. Great skill!
Antisemitism is often referred to as "racism" and the specific domain of the word "Russian" is varied from person to person, so thanks for nitpick I guess?
In any case, I was referring to that specific "evil ${ethnicity/nationality/culture}" trope, tracing back to the day when Belarus and Ukraine had also been referred to as "Russians"
> replace with whatever nationality you like.
It has a ring of "evil Jews" to it. That's the replacement placeholder I use as a benchmark of wether something is appropriate to say out-loud.
Not ONCE have I had any negative experience, invasion of my privacy, with any russian product.
The only negativity I experienced was caused by services I pay for (as a German) being blocked because I was in Russia.
I strongly urge people to reconsider that the Russian people are not evil, and that Russian intelligence services do not give a fuck about random people using services in Russia. Now consider that Nginx is not in Russia, its open source, and quickly it becomes clear that this whole discussion is motivated only by a boogie-man type fearmongering and nothing else.
You should be much more afraid of any tech that isnt open source, that you use, than this.
Apologies for the tone - I am just very sick and tired of this kind of talk, and as a German it reminds me of what we read in our own history books about inducing fear based on where one is from.
Very sad times await us if people will start forming their opinions based On what chatgpt hallucinates to them or what they find from quick skim of wikipedia page
Guess what, ape: Google has russian connection too (Sergey Brin) and even your chemistry books have russian connection (Mendeleev)