This looks great, but it makes me very sad and annoyed through no fault of its own
This looks great, but it makes me very sad and annoyed through no fault of its own. I started building a Plex/Jellyfin clone in 2019 (around the same time it looks like!), got pretty far into it as well, using a pretty similar messaging system and everything (using ZeroMQ instead of Rabbit). I was working for Apple at the time, and I wanted to open source it, so I had to talk to a bunch of management, eventually someone just two levels below Tim Cook, who told me that it was a "competitive" product, because it served video, and Apple sold video. He also informed me that if it's found out I open sourced it, I would be promptly terminated and would potentially face legal action as it would be in direct violation of my non-compete, and moreover since I was working for Apple they legally owned it anyway. He then explained that there's no such thing as "my own time", as Apple really wants me to be focused on Apple, and nothing else I genuinely had to hold back tears in that managers office, because it really felt like a punch in the gut. …
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