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Nginx established as a company
- wensing 15y agoAh, now that is better news than 1,000 TC funding articles.
- someone13 15y agoIn a slightly related vein, does anyone know if there's an official "donate" page? For all the help that nginx has been, I'd happily contribute some money to the author(s).
- markbao 15y agoIf you like to donate to nginx, you can make a donation via PayPal paypal@nginx.net http://sysoev.ru/en/donation.html http://sysoev.ru/en/donation.html
- someone13 15y agoJust what I was looking for - thanks!
- gravitronic 15y agoHmm.. maybe I'm wrong, but doesn't paypal disallow non-charities from collecting donations? And they often end up freezing the account? Here's the link stating that google checkout does not allow "donations" unless you're tax-exempt: http://www.reddit.com/comments/gx7br/google_emulates_paypal_keeps_donations_intended/ http://www.reddit.com/comments/gx7br/google_emulates_paypal_... I can't find the related news article for paypal offhand.
- dotBen 15y agoGiven that anyone donating is presumably using nginx somewhere would be very easy for them to restructure this as "paying a voluntary license for the use of nginx at a $ amount to be decided by the customer"
- gravitronic 15y agoThey should do that and avoid the pain of a paypal frozen account.
- markbao 15y agoThis is incredible news. Congratulations to Igor and the rest of the nginx team. Does anyone know if the model of open-source with a consulting/premium support company behind it works? I've paid 10gen for MongoDB assistance before, so I know there has to be some legitimacy behind the model. And, you know, MySQL.
- IgorPartola 15y agoThis is what the FSF has been preaching for years. Their claim is that Free Software is the most capitalistic of them all: the consumer gets a choice in who supports it, and anyone can open a support/consulting business. Red Hat is probably the most successful company running on this model.
- olalonde 15y agoUh... I think it's a bit far-fetched to think of Richard Stallman has a pro-capitalist. He is at best a social-democrat from what I've read.
- Schmidt 15y agoBut not from what _he_ says...
- mseebach 15y agoIt doesn't make sense to try to stuff software into socialism/capitalism boxes which essentially deals with ownership/distribution of scarce goods. Software is not scarce at all. In a way open source is perfectly socialist: There is almost perfect shared ownership of the production means (the software itself is free, the means to create new software - your brain and a computer that can run Linux - is well within the reach of anyone just moderately motivated.). On the other hand, it's perfectly capitalist, libertarian and free market: You alone own what you produce (provided you alone created it). No-one can tell you what to do (unless you let them) and it's hard to imagine a field where it is easier to become your own boss. Competition is fierce, creative destruction rules, the entire field surges ahead at a blinding pace.
- jdp23 15y agoCongrats! nginx has been such a great success so far, very exciting to see you take it to the next level!
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- powertower 15y agoI really wish he would not throw away Windows as a platform, considering Apache.org win32 builds make up more than 50% of their downloads. Even MySQL downloads in 2009 where something like 60% win32 and that was 2 years ago. There is so much potential here that not having good Windows builds basically means you're missing out an extra 30% of production systems and 70% of development system. As in: you could double your numbers easily. It's extra adaptation and growth. *Windows builds exist. http://nginx.org/en/docs/windows.html http://nginx.org/en/docs/windows.html
- icey 15y agoOn the other hand, it's not worth it if it takes more than double the effort to maintain Windows support. You can increase your market by 2x and still lose if it requires 3x the effort.
- TylerE 15y agoMost of the stuff that makes nginx work/fast aren't available on Windows. A lot of it is pretty much reliant on a unix api.
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- aaronblohowiak 15y agoin other words: IOCP is very different from epoll/kqueue
- e1ven 15y agoI'm actually really glad he doesn't. There's a lot of features that unix systems have that Windows does entirely differently, or not that all. To accommodate that, he'd need to either write high-level interfaces on top of things and/or use the subset of features supported across all platforms. We already have Apache ;) I like NGinx because it's willing to say "Screw marketshare. I'm trying to make the best server for This use-case, and everyone else can bugger off."
- powertower 15y agoAuthor of G-WAN webserver had this to say: I have been fascinated by Igor's code, its rigor, its almost *geometric nature*... http://forum.gwan.com/index.php?p=/discussion/comment/1272/#Comment_1272 http://forum.gwan.com/index.php?p=/discussion/comment/1272/#...
- rrrazdan 15y agoI was reading some of his other comments. He came across as a particularly "interesting" guy. He also claims that NSA has had access to quantum computers since the 90s. My observation is just to qualify your statement.
- chc 15y agoI don't see how that qualifies anything. Lots of very smart people have a few very crazy ideas. It doesn't change the fact that they're still brilliant in their area of expertise.
- yters 15y agoWhy would that be totally unlikely? It's definitely possible in theory, and we know publicly a quantum computer has been successfully implemented, albeit for very short amounts of time and very small numbers of qbits.
- sovande 15y agoHe come across as a fruit basket if you ask me; Conspiracy theories aside, when he dissed libevent and libev[1] on his own forum [2], the author of libev took time to reply and it became pretty apparent that this guy does not know a whole of lot of what he is talking about. He has also taken several stabs at Igor and Nginx and when Igor politely pointed out that g-wan actually use more syscalls than nginx for the same request - meaning that g-wan user-land code basically does nothing since it apparently is faster than nginx, he went on a crazy rampant trying to explain away the fact. [1] Libev is the event engine used by node.js. [2] http://forum.gwan.com/index.php?p=/discussion/151/libevent-and-libev-benchmarks-vs-g-wan-flame-war/p1 http://forum.gwan.com/index.php?p=/discussion/151/libevent-a...
- michaelschade 15y agoIncredible news indeed–congrats nginx team! Looking forward to their focus on new features.
- RocknRolla 15y agocongratz guys (if you read this) getting money flowing for dev of Nginx can only benefit the FOSS community. Hopefully some of that money will go into developing more documentation :)
- nginxorg 15y agoit will, it will :)
- aclark 15y agoCongrats! Very excited to hear this.
- nginxorg 15y agoThank you all for most kind and warm responses. Lots of work to do to make nginx an even better foss product.
- jason_slack 15y agoIgor, I wanted to say Thank You, but not contact info on your website and I figured using Who-IS to get a contact address would be weird.....
- nginxorg 15y agoThanks! Igor's email is actually quite simple. You take igor then add this @ then his surname and it all is ending in dot ru :) If it's all too complicated, follow us @nginxorg and I will DM Igor's contact. Alternatively there's an active list here http://nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx http://nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx
- fedd 15y agoi am proud for the guys and have a sort of white envy (if there is such a notion) i was flattered when once somebody called our "vsetec mety" project an nginx of databases. though it's definetely not true (even maybe vice versa)...
- shapeshed 15y agocongratulations! nginx is a great piece of software
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- newman314 15y agoI sure hope this gives Igor the time and cycles to implement SPDY now.
- cesar 15y agoThis is great news. It amazes me that he has been able to push the nginx project so far, mostly by himself. Congratulations to him. My only hope is that at the end he comes out with a good compensation for all his hard work.