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I feel the story of Redis is also a somewhat cautionary tale of the decoupling of value creation and value capture in open source - having a company monetize a
by wolframhempel 3y ago
I feel the story of Redis is also a somewhat cautionary tale of the decoupling of value creation and value capture in open source - having a company monetize a product by someone else and ultimately employing its creator.
Now I understand that the people that are passionate about creating OSS are often less passionate about business and vice versa - and that some of the most successful tech companies have the Jobs/Wozniak dynamic - but it still feels like an imbalance worth addressing.
But maybe I'm just cynical and lacking idealism. How's everyone else feeling about this?
- jongjong 3y agoTotally agree but the tech industry is extremely capital and relationship-oriented so I don't see a way out of that. I just wish this fact would be better advertised so that people wouldn't waste their lives in this industry.
- Affric 3y agoIt's not just in tech/open source though. Generations of people who have come up with ideas for institutions have had them sold off to the highest bidder and not seen but a fraction of the value their idea has created. It's the nature of having the money to start, run, develop a business. Having enough capital to make a very big risk less risky.