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by gyehuda 3y ago
Very excited to see this. I used to work at Yahoo. This is a serious team with serious tech.
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by gyehuda 6y ago
When this project was first published, the name of the company that published it was AOL. Before that, the company was called America Online. Subsequently it was named Oath, and now it's Verizon Media. Names change. The common theme: n
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by gyehuda 6y ago
They do an amazing job keeping it secret too. Can't even find them on the contributor list https://github.com/aol/moloch/graphs/contributors
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by gyehuda 6y ago
Moloch is free. :-)
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by gyehuda 6y ago
Preach Brother! Moloch is a serious open source project, run by serious people who care about network security. They published their code under an open source license, showing off just how confident they are that it is solid. You can use th
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by gyehuda 6y ago
You can see https://www.verizonmedia.com/our-brands to see the collection of online brands in the family. You might use lots of these brands today without really noticing. There's a lot of internet content you get via
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by gyehuda 6y ago
I fixed that for you https://github.com/aol
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by gyehuda 6y ago
According to my sources, DARPA wasn't involved in any of the child sacrifices, but they might use Moloch to help secure their networks.
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by gyehuda 6y ago
Naming open source projects is a challenging task. The team hears this all the time, but hey, open source is about code you can use, a community you can join to make the code better, and the pride that people around the world want to use yo
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by gyehuda 6y ago
Sorta like https://www.wireshark.org/ . But Moloch is a very active project, used by many, and used internally at Verizon Media. Aol is part of Verizon Media (which brought AOL and Yahoo together). Open source is very active
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by gyehuda 9y ago
oops, thanks. I meant to disclose my affiliation, not disclaim it.
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by gyehuda 9y ago
FWIW, there was a research team at Yahoo who would actually get insights about the way people used language (relevant for contextual search) from Yahoo Answers. They were more active during the earlier years when the content quality was muc
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by gyehuda 9y ago
"Vespa is the single greatest piece of software Yahoo ever built. It's like ElasticSearch but a hundred times better. I am so happy." Laurie Voss Co-founder/COO of @npmjs https://twitter.com/seldo/s
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by gyehuda 9y ago
My job is to manage the open source process for Oath (which is essentially Yahoo + AOL). That includes helping ensure we can publish code like this and the hundreds of other projects we publish too. I'm the one who cares about open sou
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by gyehuda 9y ago
Some companies make money by licensing software. They are less willing to publish code since, to them, code is revenue and they don't want to give it away. Internet-media companies view code more like a required expense. Giving code aw
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by gyehuda 9y ago
Note: TFoS is also a Yahoo open source project. The teams work together. https://github.com/yahoo/TensorFlowOnSpark
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by gyehuda 9y ago
Proprietary code is expensive to maintain. Even though there's a dedicated team of a few dozen people that has been working on Vespa over the years there are thousands of developers who have been contributing to ElasticSearch, Lucene,
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by gyehuda 9y ago
The Register did a good job describing the dichotomy between the product business and the tech side of the business here, related to a previous open source project Yahoo published (disclaimer, I run the open source process at Yahoo) https:
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by gyehuda 10y ago
Thanks, I came to a similar conclusion and shared it here (in case anyone wishes to see or comment). I'm not a lawyer, btw. https://www.quora.com/Are-GitHubs-new-terms-of-services-prob...
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by gyehuda 11y ago
The ToDo Group has stopped working on the Open Code of Conduct and suggests to use an existing code of conduct.
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by gyehuda 12y ago
Thanks. It's hard to measure what I can't see. Many companies do participate in open source, but it's hard to notice all the activity since there is just way too much going on in so many communities. What does surprise me is
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by gyehuda 12y ago
I see this as one of the fundamental problems with the AGPL/Apache licensing patterns. The company can create an Apache driver, but it's not clear when a member of the community creates a driver if they can also use the Apache lic
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by gyehuda 12y ago
So far, AGPL has not been tested in court. GPL has. The scope of Derivative Works (reach) has as well (but the case law in this area is more complicated than most open source developers are aware of since copyright law is understood differe
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by gyehuda 16y ago
Dear jmillikin Let me make a helpful suggestion that is purely intended to be for your benefit (and if you work for a company, it would significantly help them too): contact an attorney who is familiar with Open Source legalities to get cla