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But then Amazon is free to host this as a paid service and take all the money.
by jitl 4y ago
But then Amazon is free to host this as a paid service and take all the money.
- rglullis 4y agoRedis is doing just fine, PostgreSQL is doing just fine. They are both real open source. The performance improvements are not worth the legal/compliance overhead of adding non-FOSS to my stack. Much less so if the performance improvements are due just to some optimization choice in the underlying system. In the next 5 years, it will be easier to have Redis adding the io_ring optimizations than for this new project to become uniquely better.
- jitl 4y agoNow I’m curious where you work and how compliance requires FOSS!
- rglullis 4y agoYou misunderstood. What I am saying is that is precisely because I am working on projects of different sizes and potentially with different customers, I do not want to have the burden of having to check if the projects have specific compliance requirements. I have a SaaS [0], my own (AGPL, by the way) open source project [1] and also work have the occasional contract job. It's much easier to say "just use Redis because it is FOSS and it gets the job done" across the board then to try to special-case the tools based on licensing requirements. [0]: https://communick.com https://communick.com [1]: https://hub20.io https://hub20.io
- adastra22 4y agoAnd? AGPL is not a non-commercial license. If Amazon wanted to provide such a service, they would certainly be permitted to. As long as they provided any changes they make to the the AGPL source code. The AGPL would not "infect" their hosting infrastructure.