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Wasn't AWS a major contributor to Redis? How are they "freeloading"?
by tsimionescu 3y ago
Wasn't AWS a major contributor to Redis? How are they "freeloading"?
- 420698008 3y agoI'm pretty sure ElastiCache has been around longer than Redis Labs too, so it's not like AWS undercut them, plus RL got a ton of free market research from it
- jsmeaton 3y agoIn this case that’s true and why I said I don’t think it applies here. Typically it does though. Open source services are in a weird spot. They spend tonnes of money developing it and big providers are able to cannibalise as soon as something becomes popular at very little cost to themselves. I think we do need something between fully free and fully closed where cloud providers pay some kind of licensing. It’s a problem worth solving.