- The one positive of this is it seems to have livened up the open source project (Vinyl Cache). Features that haven't been added for years are now being worked on, whether they step on the toes of the commercial offering or not.
- This was published in April, and we are far from consensus on what is “varnish”. Lots of distributions are now packaging vinyl and calling it varnish, some are pointing to the varnish repo instead (Fedora, Homebrew).
I’d left a comment last time, but haven’t tracked it since: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47728216
by mijoharas
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- This article links to a previous one[0] (by Poul) which states:
> I will also state for the record, that there are no hard feelings between Varnish Software and the FOSS project.
I wonder if that is still the case now. (this article is fairly diplomatically written, but I'd imagine it must be pretty frustrating)
[0] https://vinyl-cache.org/organization/20-years.html#years
- It sounds like Varnish Cache is kind of a distribution of Vinyl Cache. It's based on the FOSS project with its own downstream patches.
On another topic:
> The Varnish Cache FOSS software was initiated and sponsored by the Norvegian newspaper Verdens Gang. They hired a company called “Linpro” to handle the logistics and me to write the code.
> From Linpro grew the company Varnish Software
> IP-Lawyers still insist that Varnish Software owns the Varnish Cache name
Consultants came in a just assumed the IP? It sounds like a pretty complicated cross-border ordeal, but that is still quite a leap.
- What a mess... It's sad that the community has to suffer the consequences of a company holding the trademark hostage.
- The comparison with MySQL/MariaDB is unfortunate, given that since the "split" MariaDB has shown itself to be every bit the corporate owned "FOSS" project while its supporters still harp on about how terrible oracle is for OSS, without actually acknowledging the real history of each respective project and accompanying company.
Given that MariaDB the company is now owned by a private equity firm, I doubt it's going to get better.
- Does Fastly still uses Vinyl Cache? Wondering who else is using it as well in production.
by throawayonthe
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- does the mysql/mariadb comparison actually make sense? mysql is not really a downstream distro of mariadb (maaybe even the opposite?) so i thought i understood the situation as presented until that paragraph
by anotherhue
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- It definitely sounds more musical to my ears.
- In Canada, we pronounce it Vinyl CachÉE.
- "Vinyl cache" is an interesting name. I wonder what other candidates the maintainers considered? I was secretly hoping they would name it "Veneer Cache" or something similar to "varnish".
- So its not a cache for my record collection ;(
- The operational wrinkle nobody mentions in the rename is that the same vulnerability now ships under two version trains. VSV00019 was just patched as Vinyl 9.0.1 and as Varnish 8.0.2 and 6.0.18, so anyone pinning a version in their package manager has to figure out which lineage their distro actually tracks before the next CVE lands.
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