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by bentlegen 1y ago
It stopped being relevant because its content became acceptable on major social networks, beginning in late 2022.
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by bentlegen 1y ago
Hopefully you won’t mind me using their own arguments to promote this OSS web analytics project instead: https://counterscale.dev/ Unlike Simple Analytics (the post authors), you deploy Counterscale to your own Cloudflare a
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by bentlegen 2y ago
> However, it's not meant to be a community project or used commercially for free. But they can? Source available can mean everything from "proprietary, you can look but you can't touch" to "this source code is l
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by bentlegen 2y ago
> Which is exactly why they now need to switch licenses and put newer features behind more restrictive terms so users are forced to pay Sentry switched to BUSL in 2019, almost 5 years ago.[1] Most of the aforementioned fundraising occur
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by bentlegen 2y ago
Google has an organization-wide ban on using AGPL software, and they explain why here: https://opensource.google/documentation/reference/using/agpl...
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by bentlegen 2y ago
> Is it possible to run Counter scale on-prem against logs from HAProxy, Nginx, or Apache? Probably. But it's not for that use case (for example, Counterscale intentionally strips IP addresses). > There's also a newcomer cal
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by bentlegen 2y ago
Plausible is great (I use it at Sentry), but I want to clarify that only Plausible Community Edition is open source, and it note it differs significantly from their paid SaaS offering: https://plausible.io/self-hosted-web-an
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by bentlegen 2y ago
What terminology would you use instead to differentiate it from a SaaS solution? Someone suggested "self-operated" elsewhere in the thread. Thoughts?
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by bentlegen 2y ago
Because those are the underlying services that the above software is built on. And they allow the system to handle both very few to many many requests/sec for basically $0. That's the point of the article. To say, "I can run
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by bentlegen 2y ago
Maybe self-operated is better terminology -- that's fair. (Though I think one of the key points is that there is almost nothing to operate.) For me, the fundamental issue is whether I am controlling what code is out there, I'm pay
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by bentlegen 2y ago
I don't work for Cloudflare?
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by bentlegen 2y ago
Can you do 100k requests/day for free running Kafka, Clickhouse, nginx, some queue-draining code, etc? Clickhouse says the minimum amount of RAM it needs is 8gb. Kafka also needs multiple GB of ram. How small an instance will you get a
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Relicensing and Rug Pulls(openpath.chadwhitacre.com)
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by bentlegen 3y ago
I assume you're not talking about this company because there is no such script on spotlightjs.com (easily verifiable), and the docs are also actually in the repository: Example: https://github.com/getsentry/spotlig
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by bentlegen 3y ago
Your browser's dev tools don't show you what's happening inside your server (and any downstream services) when responding to the browser's HTTP requests. Spotlight does. That's what's special about it.
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by bentlegen 3y ago
In the early 2000s in college I wrote a basic terrain renderer in C++ and OpenGL. It randomly generated some textured terrain, and had some basic features like you could move the camera and look around. Nothing super impressive. A few month
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by bentlegen 3y ago
Re: open.sentry.io, some of the language should probably be more clear. We’ll take a look at it.
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by bentlegen 3y ago
> Then release your software under a source available non-compete license with the caveat that it will become open source when you stop working on it. (Basically what you have already done.) Done. Note that the license website is pretty
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by bentlegen 3y ago
Feedback accepted. We’re still sharpening our language, and the FSL is the best articulation of what we want to do today.
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by bentlegen 3y ago
I don’t feel it’s deflection because Armin is the creator of Flask, a founding engineer, and our Principal Architect. He additionally is a member Sentry’s senior engineering/product leadership, and a key contributor to our licensing ef
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by bentlegen 3y ago
I don’t feel “given you already have a proprietary license, why wouldn’t you just make it freely permissive” needs much explaining. We develop the software; the exclusivity period helps us monetize the work (vs giving it away to someone els
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by bentlegen 3y ago
> but are people who are trying to replace open source software with a shared source version Note that the thread you link to is a situation where they took an entirely closed source product, CodeCov, and made it source available under B
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by bentlegen 3y ago
> when you try to mislead people into thinking those licenses are open source I think you're crossing a line. Here's what Armin wrote in the parent linked article: > ... But one thing is clear: until its expiration, the lice
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by bentlegen 3y ago
> Or in other words, to use their quote back on them: If you are convinced your license is the best thing since sliced bread, there is probably little we can do to disavow you of that notion. I don't think anyone in this thread has
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by bentlegen 3y ago
All of this is covered in the article.
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by bentlegen 3y ago
I think the direction of your comment is right, with two caveats: > but is closed now to create scarcity 1. It's not about scarcity. The software has always been given away for free for non-competing use (it was licensed under BUSL
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by bentlegen 3y ago
Sentry was already using BUSL (Business Source License) for 4+ years with a non-competitive Additional Use Grant. So we had already been doing this for a long time. The new license actually allows for more competition, because it has a shor
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by bentlegen 3y ago
It feels like you intentionally omitted his immediate follow-up to your quoted comment: > > my theory about embrace/extend/extinguish seems to be as accurate as I thought. > This is confused. Embrace/extend/exti
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by bentlegen 3y ago
Proprietary wouldn't allow for free, non-competing use of the software during the 2 year period. The FSL does.
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by bentlegen 3y ago
The people we're concerned about are not the hundreds of thousands of Sentry users, including those that self-host. We're concerned about people who have taken the software for the purposes of competing directly against us, that h

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