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.
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.
“ 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.
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.
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.
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.
re: sqllite
tl;dr its always been sqlite
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16878076
“ 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.
Yes, but one of those comments was from some random person, and the other appears to be one of the foundationdb co-founders.
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.
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.
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
Amazing, never thought this project would again see the light of day after Apple acquired them.