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Ha, I remember the days where Apache was one of the poster childs of open source along with Mozilla.

Meanwhile nginx was the authors own homepage, complete with hammers and sickles, with a personal anecdote about how he read the c10k paper (describing how you should have 10,000 connections on a Pentium III ) and decided to use nonblocking io make a fast Web server.

Nowadays nginx is the safe choice and Apache is seen as a little bit old hat.

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Safe choice - why? My experience is that it has lots of non-conformant, weird little behaviors.

You could say same about both of them.

Like how example in Apache ordering of vhosts doesn't matter, except for choosing the default vhosts

The order matters in Nginx also in certain cases.

> non-conformant

Non-conformant to what? Is it following a spec somewhere?

I mean, yes, there is an HTTP1, 1.1 and 2 spec, gzip spec, brotli spec, mime types, tls 1, 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3, quic spec, sni spec, but I did not bother replying as the grandparent comment hasn’t given any detail.

Oh derp. Yeah I could see that being an issue.

My brain's shot and I thought they were talking about some sort of server spec (not sure for what? conig? request handling?)

Mozilla also had it's fair share of commie symbolism, who remembers this:

https://www-archive.mozilla.org/party/2002/flyer.html

I actually liked the commie vibes in the free software movement. In some ways the movement was attacking big-capitals, and was attacked by big-capital.

Too bad Red Flag Linux[1] (from China) and Red Star Linux[2] (from North Korea) are not actively maintained. Nova Linux[3] (from Cuba) seems to be the only distro still somewhat maintained.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Flag_Linux

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Star_OS

3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_(operating_system)

> And then when people complained about that, I explained in detail that Futurism was a popular style of propaganda art on all sides of the early 20th century conflicts; it was not used only by the Soviets and the Chinese, but also by US in their own propaganda, particularly in recruitment posters and just about everything the WPA did, and even by the Red Cross. So if you looked at our branding and it made you think of Communism, well, I'm sorry, but that's just a deep misunderstanding of Modern Art history: this is merely what poster art looked like in the 1930s, regardless of ideology!

> That was complete bullshit, of course. Yes, I absolutely branded Mozilla.org that way for the subtext of "these free software people are all a bunch of commies." I was trolling.

> I trolled them so hard.

No direct link to source because jwz.

What’s wrong with JWZ?

He redirects links from HN.

You could use a dereferer redirecter, like so:

https://dereferer.link/?https://www.jwz.org/blog/2016/10/the...

I respect his decision, and decline to use automated technical means to get around it.

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