> Redis Labs is growing very fast, but yet not enough people IMHO understand that it's worth to buy the service from the folks that invest in the OSS side of su

> Redis Labs is growing very fast, but yet not enough people IMHO understand that it's worth to buy the service from the folks that invest in the OSS side of such system. I fail to see the problem. Aren't people choosing to buy from other providers because it's easier / better in some way? Not personal: It's totally fine to make proprietary software, but I find this post-rationalization about fairness totally off-putting. Something was released as BSD, it's given away. If the maintenance workload is 'unfair', stop working on it, make a proprietary fork and charge money for it, but no need to hide under the pretense of being taken advantage of or 'OSS is failing' - to me that's exactly the spirit. Make software available to others, in exchange for being able to build a business in top of theirs. Fairness is not part of the equation.