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> We also did not add any free software What does this really mean? Did you use some paid language/compiler ala Borland? Did you write all your own libraries?
by vsnf 3y ago
> We also did not add any free software
What does this really mean? Did you use some paid language/compiler ala Borland? Did you write all your own libraries?
Without huge resources, like an intelligence agency or multinational, I don’t see how it’s possible to not use any free software. Unless these stories take place 30 years ago or something.
- dartos 3y agoI’m working somewhere now where we’re building everything above the network transport layer from scratch. We just built an in memory IPC and rpc protocol on top of UDP. You can just do that. It’s not as easy to use as grpc+protobuf. Probably not as fast, almost certainly not as correct, but you can do it.
- couchand 3y agoMore half-broken solutions is not the answer...
- 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 3y agoIf it's not as fast or correct... Why?
- Dalewyn 3y agoLiability.
- dartos 3y agoIMO the CTO hasn’t written production code since 2008 and doesn’t know about what modern software dev is like. He dreamt up a system which is basically AWS lambdas, but calls to services are abstracted by wrapper classes so it doesn’t _feel_ like you’re making a network call. Also, I think he just ignores what he doesn’t understand. I asked what he was thinking about using for our front end and he suggested using wisel, which is a proprietary, mostly unknown, C# to html+css+js package. He said it “paints widgets directly on the page from c#.” He believes that html+css+js is too complex, so ofc adding C# and a JSON style format that approximates css to the equation will make things simpler.
- ChrisMarshallNY 3y agoIt means that we knew the provenance of our stack, from the metal up. Probably not appropriate to say “we did not use any free software,” but we knew where it all came from. I don’t remember the name of the company we hired, but they were expensive. They would periodically scan our codebase, in order to ensure proper licensing of everything. Our company was a massive patent-holder, and was absolutely anal about licensing.
- CRConrad 3y ago> Our company was a massive patent-holder, and was absolutely anal about licensing. Sounds big and blue.
- ChrisMarshallNY 3y agoNo. Small and Japanese (yellow logo).