The one positive of this is it seems to have livened up the open source project (Vinyl Cache). Features that haven't been added for years are now being worked on, whether they step on the toes of the commercial offering or not.

This article links to a previous one[0] (by Poul) which states:

> I will also state for the record, that there are no hard feelings between Varnish Software and the FOSS project.

I wonder if that is still the case now. (this article is fairly diplomatically written, but I'd imagine it must be pretty frustrating)

[0] https://vinyl-cache.org/organization/20-years.html#years

What a mess... It's sad that the community has to suffer the consequences of a company holding the trademark hostage.

does the mysql/mariadb comparison actually make sense? mysql is not really a downstream distro of mariadb (maaybe even the opposite?) so i thought i understood the situation as presented until that paragraph

It definitely sounds more musical to my ears.

The comparison with MySQL/MariaDB is unfortunate, given that since the "split" MariaDB has shown itself to be every bit the corporate owned "FOSS" project while its supporters still harp on about how terrible oracle is for OSS, without actually acknowledging the real history of each respective project and accompanying company.

Given that MariaDB the company is now owned by a private equity firm, I doubt it's going to get better.

So its not a cache for my record collection ;(

"Vinyl cache" is an interesting name. I wonder what other candidates the maintainers considered? I was secretly hoping they would name it "Veneer Cache" or something similar to "varnish".