[ShadowAce]

[ShadowAce]

[re_nortex]

All the usual technical people who frequent articles such as this probably already know this but for a visitor who may come across this thread, Free Republic uses nginx as this report from the lynx browser shows:

   Linkname: Latest Articles
        URL: http://freerepublic.com/tag/*/index
    Charset: iso-8859-1 (assumed)
     Server: nginx/1.2.4

And there's a lot of John Robinson's well-written Perl, an open-source programming language crafted by Larry Wall, an evangelical Christian, driving the backend of what we often take for granted here on FR. I'd say that using open source has served Free Republic quite well.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

What is “cannibalism” in the proprietary software world is merely OSS working as designed. Somebody finds something good, modifies its (open) source code and makes it better.

Simply put, this ain’t “cannibalism” - this is the OSS system working as designed.

Presumably if Apache so desired they could backport the enhancements into their own codebase - at least so it seems to me.

[smokingfrog]

The Apache folks know this, and haven’t been sitting idle. In early 2012 the Apache Software Foundation released version 2.4, of which ASF president Jim Jagielski declared: “As far as true performance is based - real-world performance as seen by the end-user- 2.4 is as fast, and even faster than some of the servers who may be ‘better’ known as being ‘fast’, like Nginx.”