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Re:Nginx Plus by stonemetal on Thursday August 22, 2013 @09:37AM (#6257013)
>Surprising to see this (not at all uncommon with OSS folks) preference for "group o' dudes" over "group o' dudes with enough money not to need to take day jobs and a tangible motivation to work hard on this particular product."

From the other side it is a "group o' dudes who freely share" becoming a "group o' dudes who allow a little bit of access but otherwise don't share". If you are big believer in sharing then it is sad they don't want to share anymore.

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Re:Nginx Plus by FooBarWidget on Thursday August 22, 2013 @10:43AM (#6257430)
Sharing is only fair if it's a two-way exchange. How much code have most people contributed to Nginx? If they don't contribute code, then how about donating money? Oh hm... the donation page doesn't look so impressive.
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Re:Nginx Plus by zzzcpan on Thursday August 22, 2013 @12:23PM (#6258113)
It is two-way exchange, but common, have you tried to contribute? They do not accept anything and neither are open to talk about it.
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Re:Nginx Plus by FooBarWidget on Friday August 23, 2013 @11:32AM (#6264206)
Yes I did. I contributed the ability to listen on unix domain sockets, and it's been part of nginx since 0.8.
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