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It's a pity that the Sandstorm project got acquired. After decades of research and development in operating systems, security, and UI we still can't make an eas
by sansnomme 7y ago
It's a pity that the Sandstorm project got acquired. After decades of research and development in operating systems, security, and UI we still can't make an easy to use Firewall solution and instead have to rely on external services like Argo tunnel and DigitalOcean's firewall to reliably lock down a network. This is a failure of software engineering and open source. For all the the obsession with software freedom, we are still locked in to proprietary systems when it comes to critical stuff.
- kentonv 7y agoFWIW, Sandstorm wasn't acquired. It ran out of money, forcing the developers to find new jobs. Sandstorm had already failed before we talked to Cloudflare about hiring the team members. (I've been told by other founders and investors that I should pretend this was an "exit" for "optics", but I'm really bad at lying...)
- xet7 7y agoI do still release Wekan also for Sandstorm, and I will make more fixes and features for Wekan Sandstorm version. Sandstorm is still great tech, only those grains are running that are in use, so it saves huge amount of RAM, when compared to Docker that needs to be running all the time. All of Sandstorm is Open Source including Blackrock clustering. It depends are there interested companies and developers contributing to Sandstorm. It also depends, are companies selecting software freedom. At those companies, they control their own data on their own servers, and have their own company developers contributing to Open Source they use, or sponsor Open Source project developers. So when size of company grows, there is no license cost per user licenses. Propietary companies just keep buying propietary software, and then wonder why they are locked in.