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Just out of curiosity, are they paying Nginx Inc or Nginx contributors?

• elithrar 13y ago
  The developer who announced this works for Nginx the company, so I would assume (emphasis on the assume!) that Nginx Inc. was paid to undertake this. I don't think this is a problem given that the patch is being openly pushed into the "public" source immediately. It'd also be extremely challenging to pay "the community" for a patch like this (how do you divvy up the funds? per SLOC?), although technically you could always directly pay a single contributor or two. Directly engaging Nginx Inc seems to be both the surest way to get something delivered and avoid a lot of PR risk, if you ask me.
  • cmelbye 13y ago
    Normally if a company wants to take that route, they would hire one of the developers as an employee, and the employee's job would be to work on that open source project.
• ORachel 13y ago
  Since ~99.5% of contributions to nginx are made by Nginx Inc employees, I think there wasn't two options.