• TrackenDaKracken@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    CRAM was conceptualized by Gregory Price and his team at Meta.

    Implemented on Linux because that’s where it works, but closed source, so they’ll use it on their own hardware alone? I guess this is just an interesting thing, but nothing anyone will benefit from but Zuckerberg, since he owns it.

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        or more accurately lets assume meta doesn’t share it… doesn’t it just prove the possibility? Opening the door for a similar tech to be made open source?

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          If I remember correctly, isn’t meta the creator of several significant open source software projects, including zstd?