talloo

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   by talloo 3y ago

   Most consulting contracts are work for hire where you explicitly agreed to transfer and relinquish any claim to the IP. You should check your contract to see what it says. In all likelihood, it is unreasonable to request royalties.
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   by talloo 3y ago

   AOLserver ate the Netscape server for lunch
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   by talloo 3y ago

   AOLserver was way ahead of its time as it was a multithreaded server with native database connection to Oracle and PostgreSQL (as far back as 6.9). Its performance and ease of development was miles ahead of Apache and most other tools. Zipc
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   by talloo 3y ago

   It was built on the Arsdigita Community System which had a parallel community called OpenACS.
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   by talloo 3y ago

   It was a bear to maintain large codebases with. AOLserver could have won had move languages been built into the server (python, perl, etc) but Tcl was so well integrated trying to bring another language to its level would have been far too
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   by talloo 3y ago

   It's an absolute delight to see this at the top of HN! I spent a good 8 years trying to convince people to use AOLserver over Zope as part of OpenACS ( https://openacs.org ). AOLserver is still used in .LRN ( https:/&#x2