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[–] this@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 hours ago (4 children)

Embrace, Extend, Eliminate?

[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 hour ago

You mean like ZStandard from Facebook too?

[–] Eggymatrix@sh.itjust.works 15 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

That is not how this works. EEE can be said about window's wsl, but here they are contributing directly to the kernel. That is why linux is that good, these big corporations profit billions by running linux, and getting it sligthly more memory efficient with current ram prices makes them profit even more. Fortunately the license forces them to contribute the code back and we profit from the same optimizations they implemented.

[–] who@feddit.org 18 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Fortunately the license forces them to contribute the code back

It doesn't. It would only do so if they distributed their modified kernel to others, rather than simply running it on their own servers.

They chose to contribute their changes upstream anyway, presumably so they aren't burdened with having to adapt them to every new kernel version in the future. Fortunately, we stand to benefit as a side effect of that decision.

[–] who@feddit.org 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I dislike Meta as much as anyone, but sometimes a cucumber is just a cucumber.

[–] dusk@piefed.social 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Here is your cucumber:

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People who dislike meta don't promote meta.

[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago

I dislike Meta. But I like their work on ZStandard and use it myself. Best compression algorithm since 7zip. It's extremely fast and can be used in may applications for various use cases. If that is the standard we can expect, then I'm happy what they do on CRAM. We only benefit from this.

[–] slacktoid@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 hours ago

Let's hope GPL v2 helps