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    Unbelievable! Is this the first time Apple has acqui-killed a product and brought it back? I wonder how that happened. I appreciate anyone behind the scenes that helped along in the process of gettimg some good tech back into hands of the masses. Even more than original since it’s FOSS.

    A FoundationDB developer is on HN right now if anyone wants to ask them questions.

    Edit: Reading the HN comments from developers, which are great btw, I find they just open-sourced part oc it instead of all. One dev indicates it’s one of hardest parts that got FOSS’d. Another says the storage part is missing with a SQLite substitute. Another is saying some layers on top are missing. So, Apple open-sources parts of FoundationDB is more accurate.

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      re: sqllite

      tl;dr its always been sqlite

      https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16878076

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        “ a fairly heavily modified asynchronous version of sqlite’s btree”

        Wording of one comment saying it’s just SQLite and one saying heavily-modified variant made me wonder if they swapped the custom thing for a vanilla version.

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          Yes, but one of those comments was from some random person, and the other appears to be one of the foundationdb co-founders.

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            That’s a good point. The one I bolded was the developer. It clarifies it’s a highly-modified version of SQLlite’s storage. A great choice given its robustness.

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        Is this the first time Apple has acqui-killed a product and brought it back?

        Not hardly, although this is the first instance I can think of where they’ve released open source. My favorite example: FingerWorks. I wish I’d hung on to my iGesture Pad, just for the collectible value.

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          The code for Turi Create was closed when that company was acquired. The project was opened again late last year: https://github.com/apple/turicreate

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        Amazing, never thought this project would again see the light of day after Apple acquired them.