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announcing freenginx.org (mailman.nginx.org)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Maxim Dounin announces the freenginx project.

As such, starting from today, I will no longer participate in nginx development as run by F5. Instead, I’m starting an alternative project, which is going to be run by developers, and not corporate entities:

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Does it actually make sense to call it free nginx? It seems like that'd just cause confusion, especially if the projects diverge. Most of the time when this happens they choose a new name (like MariaDB vs MySQL)

That being said, I wish the project all the best. I use nginx both professionally and personally so I'll be keeping an eye on this.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

probably wont be the name for long anyway.

aparently F5 Networks. owns a trademark for nginx.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

That makes it even worse then 😅. The whole thing seems kind of silly