Nginx 1.25.0: experimental HTTP/3 support

Re:Nginx 1.25.0: experimental HTTP/3 support by hinkley on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @07:55PM (#36052303)

You're saying anything that makes under $4k a year isn't a business, but you're using it to justify that anything that makes under $8k a year isn't a business. Because you're earmarking those profits to go to a vendor, which then are not profits.

Are people not entitled to make $300 a month because they owe Nginx for a bot throttling feature? Can you run a small website without throttling these days?

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Re:Nginx 1.25.0: experimental HTTP/3 support by messe on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @08:36PM (#36052557)

> Are people not entitled to make $300 a month because they owe Nginx for a bot throttling feature?

Where is this attitude of entitlement coming from? Are people entitled to use Nginx's code for free? Yes, free software is a wonderful thing, and I do believe that most software should be free. But the reality, in this world, is that software developers need to eat, and relying solely on donations only works for a handful of projects (as does relying on selling support). Open-core is a reasonable middle ground.

If somebody wants to reimplement that feature on top of Nginx and release it under a free license, there's absolutely nothing stopping them. If you want to use an already written and well-integrated version from Nginx themselves, then you can pay up.

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Re:Nginx 1.25.0: experimental HTTP/3 support by kelnos on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @08:33PM (#36052545)

On the other hand, though, why does anyone believe they're entitled to a bot-throttling feature for free?

Certainly someone could write and release a third-party, open-source nginx module to do bot throttling, if they wanted to.

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