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TL;DR: "They have launched a startup, Julia Computing, to provide services such as support, training and consulting services for Julia, for a fee." Basically,
by ssivark 12y ago
TL;DR: "They have launched a startup, Julia Computing, to provide services such as support, training and consulting services for Julia, for a fee."
Basically, consulting and services. For all those who're getting worried by this, I don't think there's any inherent problem. After all, this is exactly what Red Hat has been doing with Linux for years.
- reubenmorais 12y agoI believe PUC-Rio does something similar for the Lua language as well.
- krick 12y agoHonestly, I still feel a bit uncomfortable when hearing about something like that. When a company (especially if it's a company making a software product for "internal" use, like programming language or monitoring service) provides "support and training for a fee" I cannot help but imagine how all the documentation disappears or becomes more and more outdated, until only enterprise customers are using that stuff. Because if you are paid for training, why would you care to teach people for free, right? Of course it's probably only my imagination, but… that's it.
- ViralBShah 12y agoYes, certainly imagination. :-) The documentation is community created and under the MIT license as is the rest of the code. Our customers like Julia because it is a high quality open source project. Our incentives are fully aligned to make Julia the best open source project it can be, in all aspects. I did not work on Julia for the last 5 years to see it become cripple-ware. I have worked in a startup before where all the amazing engineering work disappeared. That is why we started Julia in the first place.