Irrespective of what the perception of pg is, the tweet was pretty clear that pg only "inspired" or "triggered" the creation of Redis. That gives pg no more mor

Irrespective of what the perception of pg is, the tweet was pretty clear that pg only "inspired" or "triggered" the creation of Redis. That gives pg no more more credibility than the moon gets for inspiring Van Gogh to paint Starry Night. Attributing inspiration takes nothing away from an artist, nor from the work. I don't event think it meaningfully changes the credibility of the inspiring object. I could randomly paraphrase and quote lines from the Art of Computer Programming, for instance, and if I had a wide enough audience I'd probably bring about a Great Renaissance in the field of computer science and programming. History might remember as the Greatest Idea Man of all time, but that seems unlikely.