On Vinyl Cache and Varnish Cache
26 points by Foxboron
26 points by Foxboron
The first part of this that helped me understand is the reference, by analogy, to MariaDB
Couldn't figure out why they would do such a lateral branding change. But the lead is buried. It's a trademark issue with a corporate entity controlling the name Varnish. There's no indication what lead to the split.
I got the impression from the previous blog post https://vinyl-cache.org/organization/20-years.html that the commercial support company is no longer comfortable with the informal mutually-beneficial arrangements established 20 years ago between themselves and their open source free software supplier.