[nanoscopic]

Please release my rewrite / serialization library for Apache Avro. I wrote it in 3 different languages for Amazon when I worked there, and went through all sorts of discussions to have them release it, and they refused for no meaningful reason that I could see.

The only reason I was ever given was "we use it and think it is great therefore we won't release it." The implication was "If what you wrote was junk we'd let you release it."

Needless to say I never tried to get Amazon to release any of my software during my time there after that, because the response was so poor.

Edit: If Amazon releases my code, I'll be happy to add a tiny credit to Amazon in Notices.Txt and in no other way be thankful to Amazon.

[fallenpegasus]

I'm the Principal Engineer for the Open Source Program Office at Amazon. We've gotten much better about being responsive and inclined to open source projects like that.

Email me at [e-mail], and tell me what the internal code names for your projects were, and were you were in the org. I'll see what I can do.