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Agreed, most of the Revenue from OSS is from hosting it, not developing it. As a result the biggest cloud vendors make most of the profit from OSS that others h
by mythz 8y ago
Agreed, most of the Revenue from OSS is from hosting it, not developing it. As a result the biggest cloud vendors make most of the profit from OSS that others have developed and spend resources on maintaining.
Not sure what the solution is either, but the major cloud companies are becoming an oligopoly who rake in most of profits in OSS giving them a competitive advantage which they can use to out resource, out market and out compete against alternative Indie OSS efforts.
Whilst the desired effect would be that the Cloud companies would pay Redis Labs a cut of their profits they make on Redis, IMO they're already big enough that they can invest more development hours in developing a superior competing replacement which they can use as a competitive differentiator vs other Redis hosts. But hopefully they'll consider profit sharing instead of developing a proprietary cloud-only fork.