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FireDucks: Pandas but Faster

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397 points sebg | 7 comments | 14 Nov 24 11:48 UTC | HN request time: 1.049s | source | bottom
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ayhanfuat ◴[20 Nov 24 12:15 UTC] No.42193206[source]▶
In its essence it is a commercial product which has a free trial.

> Future Plans By providing the beta version of FireDucks free of charge and enabling data scientists to actually use it, NEC will work to improve its functionality while verifying its effectiveness, with the aim of commercializing it within FY2024.

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1. graemep ◴[20 Nov 24 12:24 UTC] No.42193295[source]▶
Its BSD licensed. They do not way what the plans are but most likely a proprietary version with added support or features.
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2. ayhanfuat ◴[20 Nov 24 12:33 UTC] No.42193360[source]▶
They say the source code for the part “where the magic happens” is not available so I am not sure what BSD implies there.
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3. ori_b ◴[20 Nov 24 12:42 UTC] No.42193424[source]▶
It's a BSD licensed binary blob. There's no code provided.
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5. graemep ◴[20 Nov 24 13:39 UTC] No.42193835[source]▶
Wow! That is so weird.

Its freeware under an open source license. Really misleading.

It looks like something you should stay away from unless you need it REALLY badly. Its a proprietary product with unknown pricing and no indication of what their plans are.

Does the fact that the binary is BSD licensed allow reverse-engineering?

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6. captn3m0 ◴[20 Nov 24 17:53 UTC] No.42196473{3}[source]▶
> Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted

Reversing and re-compiling should count as modification?

7. HelloNurse ◴[20 Nov 24 18:22 UTC] No.42196719[source]▶
It serves as a ninja's smoke bomb until the "BSD" binary blob is suddenly obsoleted by a proprietary binary blob.