I recently spoke at TruffleCon on open source sustainability. Iâm presenting to an audience of blockchain developers, so the message was directed to that audience. Hereâs the video:
Jay Kreps, a creator of Kafka and co-founder and CEO of Confluent, told CNBC on Thursday said, Amazon has not contributed a single line of code to the Apache Kafka open-source software.
I posted something on Twitter regarding this and the two responses got me thinkingâŚ
Just because AWS doesnât contribute code back doesnât mean they arenât helping the project in another way. Maybe @zahedab can clear the air on this? At MaxCDN, we were a Nginx shop. Our platform was basically a GUI & API layer for a custom version of Nginx we distributed to each PoP. That is how we made money. We didnât contribute code back BUT we did do other things like co-sponsored SPDY support.
FWIW
I donât endorse the Twitter comments, I just find them interesting
I never even heard of Confluent until today and that is because of CNBC looking for a juicy story which happened to be good. So thatâs something right? ÂŻ\_(ă)_/ÂŻ