> Redis Labs itself is part of that industry, selling a service called "Redis Enterprise Cloud". Correct. But Redis Labs very visibly and substantially funds

> Redis Labs itself is part of that industry, selling a service called "Redis Enterprise Cloud". Correct. But Redis Labs very visibly and substantially funds development of the BSD-licensed Redis core database. Some of "open source hosting" companies did the same. I always think of Heroku hiring Matz, as an example.