Varnish Cache project to change its name to Vinyl Cache with after the next release (after today's 8.0.0, in March), per @bsdphk:

We have tried to negotiate with Varnish Software for many months about this issue, but their IP-Lawyers still insist that Varnish Software owns the Varnish Cache name, and at most we have being offered a strictly limited, subject to their veto, permission for the FOSS project to use the “Varnish Cache” name.

We cannot live with that: We are independent FOSS project with our own name.

So we will change the name of the project.

The new association and the new project will be named “The Vinyl Cache Project”, and this release 8.0.0, will be the last under the “Varnish Cache” name. The next release, in March will be under the new name, and will include compatibility scripts, to make the transition as smooth as possible for everybody.

fosstodon.org/@bsdphk/11520890…

#VarnishCache #VinylCache

That's an interesting metaphor and it raises so many questions:

1. Wouldn't it have been smarter to torque them correctly from the start ?

2. How does one even determine the correct torque for any one bolt ?

3. When somebody starts a FOSS project today, where do they acquire a torque-wrench ?

And no, I'm not teasing you (this time 🙂 ) those are some of the questions I tried to find answers to with #varnishcache's "dial it to 11" code quality rule.

Your periodic reminder that #microsoft is not a competent or serious company:

blog.orange.tw/posts/2025-01-w…

(@bagder is remarkably restrained in the quoted responses. I would have gone off the rails, but do not need to, because we decided on day one that #varnishcache would not run on Windows).

If you think that is not bad enough, read the Cyber Safety Review Board's report about the Microsoft Exchange clowncar:

cisa.gov/sites/default/files/2…

WorstFit: Unveiling Hidden Transformers in Windows ANSI!

📌 This is a cross-post from DEVCORE. The research was first published at Black Hat Europe 2024. Personally, I would like to thank splitline, the co-author of this research & article, whose help

^{Orange Tsai}