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I disagree about Redis. Redis Labs did a great job at creating an ecosystem of advanced things around Redis. But the Redis core project itself, that is what mos
by antirez 7y ago
I disagree about Redis. Redis Labs did a great job at creating an ecosystem of advanced things around Redis. But the Redis core project itself, that is what most people use, is surely sponsored for a big part by Redis Labs, but is executed as a completely OSS community driven project:
1. All the work is done in public, with a license that gives zero protection to the original authors.
2. The project leder (myself) only does OSS work and has no other roles in the sponsoring company.
3. The roadmap is decided by the community (myself with feedbacks from the community), not a company or some product manager or alike.
4. There are multiple people from multiple companies contributing regularly code to Redis: Redis Labs, Alibaba, AWS, ...
5. The main web site is handled by the community.
In the case of Redis this was possible because of the minimality of the project, otherwise I agree that's a huge challenge. But still IMHO Redis deserves to be listed in such "purely community" OSS projects.