What does this really mean? Did you use some paid language/compiler ala Borland? Did you write all your own libraries?
Without huge resources, like an intelligence agency or multinational, I don’t see how it’s possible to not use any free software. Unless these stories take place 30 years ago or something.
Probably not appropriate to say “we did not use any free software,” but we knew where it all came from.
I don’t remember the name of the company we hired, but they were expensive. They would periodically scan our codebase, in order to ensure proper licensing of everything.
Our company was a massive patent-holder, and was absolutely anal about licensing.
Sounds big and blue.
We just built an in memory IPC and rpc protocol on top of UDP.
You can just do that. It’s not as easy to use as grpc+protobuf.
Probably not as fast, almost certainly not as correct, but you can do it.
He dreamt up a system which is basically AWS lambdas, but calls to services are abstracted by wrapper classes so it doesn’t _feel_ like you’re making a network call.
Also, I think he just ignores what he doesn’t understand.
I asked what he was thinking about using for our front end and he suggested using wisel, which is a proprietary, mostly unknown, C# to html+css+js package. He said it “paints widgets directly on the page from c#.”
He believes that html+css+js is too complex, so ofc adding C# and a JSON style format that approximates css to the equation will make things simpler.