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As far as I can tell, FoundationDB was never open source until Apple open sourced it.
by 58028641 3y ago
As far as I can tell, FoundationDB was never open source until Apple open sourced it.
- tanepiper 3y agoAt least one reference on here from 2018 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16878786 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16878786 And here's a news story - https://www.forbes.com/sites/benkepes/2015/03/25/a-cautionary-open-source-tale-apple-buys-and-shutters-foundationdb/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/benkepes/2015/03/25/a-cautionar...
- endisneigh 3y agoIt was never open source before apple. Rather the binary was freely available to be used. When apple bought them they took it away but continued to support customers with contracts. In that way it was inaccessible until it was open sourced.
- metadat 3y agoYes, I got bitten by this and will never forget- FDB abruptly shut off public access in mid-2015. Fortunately for me, it only cost half a day to migrate my system to Postgres.
- detaro 3y ago... which both state that it wasnt open-source before the apple buyout.
- stephenr 3y agoHey now, don't let verifiable facts and observed history get in the way of a chance to bash Apple.
- tanepiper 3y agoI'm sorry I mis-remembered the exact details of another team that I didn't work on and tech stack from 8 years ago. I'll go give myself 100 hail Marys. The point wasn't to bash Apple - the point was that the team lost a lot of money and time and shipped and inferior product because Apple chose to purchase and close down part of the stack.