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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. Again, it's c
by radicalbyte 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.
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.