Because Nginx was written by one dude names Igor Sysoev and first publicly released in 2004. It wasn't bought by F5 until very recently (March 2019) for $670 million. So many of us, especially those that are older, remember the days when it was free and open-source software. Which technically it still is, but now instead of Nginx owning Nginx, its owned by a huge publicly traded company. For a lot of us, Nginx was our FIRST experience with a real web server. :P
Been using UNIX since the late 80s; Linux since the mid-90s; virtualization since the early 2000s and spent the past few years working in the cloud space.
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Java and VirtualBox with both also previously Sun properties. That they're now "Oracle Java" or "Oracle Virtualbox", rather than simply "Java" or "Virtualbox" is a side-effect of Oracle having bought Sun.
Even as a technically corporate entity, Sun was typically a good contributor to the open community and usually a not awful steward of acquired opensource projects. Oracle bought Sun, in part, to exert ownership over and attempt to more-heavily monetize the many, established products Sun stewarded for the open community.
When you say "F5 NGINX" it evokes horrible memories of what companies like Oracle have done to popular projects.
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Because Nginx was written by one dude names Igor Sysoev and first publicly released in 2004. It wasn't bought by F5 until very recently (March 2019) for $670 million. So many of us, especially those that are older, remember the days when it was free and open-source software. Which technically it still is, but now instead of Nginx owning Nginx, its owned by a huge publicly traded company. For a lot of us, Nginx was our FIRST experience with a real web server. :P
i probably feel the same way about oracle java and oracle virtualbox
Java and VirtualBox with both also previously Sun properties. That they're now "Oracle Java" or "Oracle Virtualbox", rather than simply "Java" or "Virtualbox" is a side-effect of Oracle having bought Sun.
Even as a technically corporate entity, Sun was typically a good contributor to the open community and usually a not awful steward of acquired opensource projects. Oracle bought Sun, in part, to exert ownership over and attempt to more-heavily monetize the many, established products Sun stewarded for the open community.
When you say "F5 NGINX" it evokes horrible memories of what companies like Oracle have done to popular projects.