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And another promising new tech goes down the kermit. Shame. And writing a book with the chap from infosys? Yikes, given what we have seen from the warm bodies d
by nomorejulia 11y ago
And another promising new tech goes down the kermit. Shame. And writing a book with the chap from infosys? Yikes, given what we have seen from the warm bodies drafted in as so-called developers from infosys, that cannot be a good sell for the book.
Glad with stuck with the python numerical stack now - far more mature.
- ninjin 11y agoI honestly do not get the controversy. They work as consultants to fund development and the start-up has been publicly known for almost a year. How is this any different from companies hiring developers to contribute to the Linux kernel or Google hiring van Rossum back in the day? The language is still free, as in freedom. Am I missing something?
- peatmoss 11y agoYeah, this might offend some aesthetic sensibilities (people wanting no corporate flavor), but the mechanics of this surely would not even offend RMS.
- S4M 11y agoI don't see what is the problem. They are selling training on Julia and Julia development. They are doing a great work on Julia, please let them monetize it. Also, I wouldn't call it a startup, it's more a consulting company.
- tmalsburg2 11y agoI think there are two possible concerns: 1.) The interest of their clients and the larger community may not align or even directly contradict each other. For example, it has been argued that the consulting work of the OpenSSL developers has been detrimental to the quality of the software and that it may have been one factor leading to the recent security problems. 2.) The Julia developers may at some point decide not to publish future additions to Julia under an open source license. Instead they may decide to sell an "enterprise" version of Julia. I don't know how likely these things are but there is certainly plenty of precedent in the open source world showing that it's possible.
- plinkplonk 11y agocommercialize == consulting, and possibly a hosted version of JuliaBox. Everything remains open source. Nothing is going down the drain. As for the book with Nilekani, that's about the intersection of governance and tech in India. What does that have to do with Julia?
- enupten 11y agoYou know there is something called Enthought (started by Travis) right ?