显然是个好主意¶
当我在美国时，墙上的文凭是一件非常重要的事情。
除了一条牢不可破的规则，即无论你喜欢与否，你公司分发的任何东西都必须挂在办公室墙上，无论多么尴尬，我认为我并没有完全逆向设计文凭挂在办公室墙上和归档的规则。
我们的儿科医生有五六个阶段的文凭。
我最喜欢的披萨店有一个美国组织颁发的“正宗意大利菜”文凭，该组织对意大利领土的认知很模糊。
同事们都有他们所在的大学、OSHA、美国空军、能源部、加州运输大学的文凭，谁知道呢。
但至少在工程师中，文凭的黄金标准是在墙上贴上美国专利，即使这只会让他们获得一美元的委任费。
我问其中一个人他的专利，他挖苦地回答说： "It proves to my boss and my mom that I had at least one unique idea in my career."
就我个人而言，我认为专利制度并不像人们认为的那样：保护小发明家不受大公司的影响，所以我的名字没有专利，实际上我的墙上根本没有文凭。
但当我看到我的一个想法以某种形式得到验证时，我仍然会在脑海中刻下一个印记。
集装箱和区域不是监狱，但他们知道，我也知道，他们的基本想法是从哪里来的，这对我的自尊心来说是足够的验证。
今天是丹麦的Store Bededag，大致翻译为“所有祈祷日”，定义为星期五，我们和许多其他丹麦人一样，私奔到海滨别墅度过了一个长周末。
但是，作为一名个体经营者，我今天上午使用了VCL编译器VCC，结果，您很快就可以说：
import vmod_with_impractically_long_name as v;
(你可以感谢Dridi的建议)
我的想法是将Varnish配置为编译成本机代码的特定于域的语言，这显然是我更好的想法之一，大约10年前，这一点变得非常明显。
在挪威 Varnish Software 是从Redpill-Linpro公司剥离出来的。
阿图尔·伯格曼是第一批瓦尼什缓存高级用户之一，他负责维基内容交付，用想法、补丁、测量方法、普遍的良好欢呼和对废话的极低容忍度像高炉一样成功地完成了我们的项目，开始了 Fastly CDN 。
在此之前，我自己也做了一些自我反省，想知道我是否应该尝试用Varnish来运行它？
在传统的经济理论中，我会为VCL的想法申请专利，并在这个想法好的情况下变得尽可能富有。
但在所有可能的世界里，这只会意味着这个想法将像门钉一样死去，我不会从中赚到任何钱，它永远不会帮助改善网络，我会在会议上浪费更多的生命，而不是对任何人的健康有好处。
好像这还不够，一想到要雇人，我就很害怕，但还不如意识到，如果我创建了一家拥有任意数量员工的公司，迟早我会不得不再次解雇某人。
写代码？是。
经营一家成长型公司？不是的。
我自我反省的结果是，这封电子邮件宣布：我在哪里退出了这个游戏：
Subject: For the record: Varnish and Money
From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To: varnish-announce@varnish-cache.org
Date: Fri Nov 19 14:03:22 CET 2010
Just so everybody know where I stand on this...
Poul-Henning
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As the main developer of the Varnish Software and the de-facto leader
of the Varnish Open Source Project, it is my desire to see Varnish
used and adopted as widely as possible.
To the same ends, the founders of the Varnish Project chose the BSD
license to facilitate commercial exploitation of Varnish in all
forms, while protecting the independence of the Open Source Project.
The BSD license is non-discriminatory, and makes no attempt to
separate the good guys from the bad guys, and neither should it.
The Varnish Project, as a community, is a different story.
While the BSD license can guarantee that Varnish, as software, will
always be available, a thriving Open Source Community takes a fair
bit more effort to hold together.
Nothing can rip apart an Open Source project faster than competing
commercial interests playing dirty, and since Varnish has started
to cause serious amounts of money to shift around, it is time to
take this issue a bit more seriously.
Non-competition pledge:
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My interest in Varnish is developing capable quality software, and
making a living at the same time.
In addition to Varnish, I have some long time good customers for
whom I do various weird things with computers and software, and
since they have stuck with me and paid my bills, I will stick with
them and send them more bills.
The Varnish Moral License (VML) was drawn up to provide a money-stream
that can fund my Varnish-habit, and it was designed as an "arms-length"
construction to prevent it from taking control of the projects
direction.
Therefore acquiring a VML does not mean that you get to tell me
what to do, or in which order I should do it. There is no "tit for
tat" involved. The only thing you get out of the VML, is that the
next version of Varnish will be better than the one we have now.
Therefore:
As long as I can keep my family fed, happy and warm this
way, I will not enter any other commercial activity related
to Varnish, and am more than happy to leave that field open
to everybody and anybody, who wants to try their hand.
Fairness pledge:
- ----------------
As the de-facto leader of the Varnish community, I believe that
the success or failure of open source rises and falls with the
community which backs it up.
In general, there is a tacit assumption, that you take something
from the pot and you try put something back in the pot, each to his
own means and abilities.
And the pot has plenty that needs filling: From answers to newbies
questions, bug-reports, patches, documentation, advocacy, VML funding,
hosting VUG meetings, writing articles for magazines, HOW-TO's for
blogs and so on, so this is no onerous demand for anybody.
But the BSD license allows you to not participate in or contribute
to the community, and there are special times and circumstances
where that is the right thing, or even the only thing you can do,
and I recognize that.
Therefore:
I will treat everybody, who do not contribute negatively to
the Varnish community, equally and fairly, and try to foster
cooperation and justly resolve conflicts to the best of my
abilities.
Policy on Gifts:
- ----------------
People sometimes prefer to show their appreciation of Varnish by
sending me gifts.
I really love that
But please understand, that any and gifts or other appreciations I
may receive, from cartoons on my Amazon Wishlist, up to and including
pre-owned tropical tax-shelter islands, with conveniently unlocked
bank vaults filled with gold bars (one can always dream...), will
all be received and interpreted the same way: As tokens of
appreciation for deeds already done, and encouragement to me to
keep doing what is right and best for Varnish in the future.
Poul-Henning Kamp
Signed with my PGP-key, November 19th, 2010, Slagelse, Denmark.
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Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
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FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe
Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
今天(20190517)阿图斯 Fastly ，该公司在纽约证券交易所上市，并在几个小时内从16美元上涨到24美元。所谓的“金融分析师”写道，其结果是，Fastly现在价值20多亿美元。
我可以百分百肯定和诚实地说，我不可能 ever 我已经做到了，这完全是阿图斯在做的，我知道并钦佩他为实现这一目标所付出的努力。
祝贺阿图尔和那些坚持不懈的团队！
但我会抢占一些阿图斯的风头，并以Fastlys的IPO为例，证明在我的职业生涯中，至少有一次我有一个价值10亿美元的独特想法：
phk