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Has anyone asked Filippo if he still wants to work on Redis "for them" though? The fact that he stepped down suggests he doesn't.
by mariusor 3y ago
Has anyone asked Filippo if he still wants to work on Redis "for them" though? The fact that he stepped down suggests he doesn't.
- radicalbyte 3y agoHe sold the trademark to some random company. Amazon / Google / Microsoft could have thrown him $30M for that and put Redis in an OSS Foundation. Again, it's chump change, these companies drop that kinda money all the time in aquihires..
- chipdart 3y ago> He sold the trademark to some random company. Amazon / Google / Microsoft could have thrown him $30M for that and put Redis in an OSS Foundation. It sounds like a very bad deal for the likes of Amazon et al. The likes of Amazon offer Redis alongside memcache just because cloud adopters might want to use a memory cache service,but there is no value in buying trademarks for it. I mean, just take a quick look how Amazon offers managed RDBMS, and how the specific DB is just an afterthought behind a compatible interface. People seem to think that just because some company has cash that they should mindlessly spend it on things that add absolutely no value.
- emmp 3y agoHe worked there for 5 years. It probably didn't feel "random" for him.