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Rowan sounds like a typical VC techbro that doesn't understand their product and costumers. On the other hand, I understand they are pissed that AWS is making

Rowan sounds like a typical VC techbro that doesn't understand their product and costumers. On the other hand, I understand they are pissed that AWS is making money from their work and they get nothing back.

falcor84 3y ago
The way I see it, if you create or contribute to an open source project, you need to leave your ego at the door and be ok with the world benefiting from it without giving you anything back. If they aren't ok with it, they shouldn't have made it open source in the first place.
- yxhuvud 3y ago
  In this case the creator left the company a year ago or so.
  - WJW 3y ago
    Time flies, it was actually 4 years ago: https://redis.com/blog/new-governance-for-redis/ https://redis.com/blog/new-governance-for-redis/
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tssge 3y ago
>On the other hand, I understand they are pissed that AWS is making money from their work and they get nothing back. Well, depending on how you look at things, it was never their work. Their business is and was exactly the same as AWS. However they paid money for the rights to the Redis name and copyright from the original developer after running their business for years in similar manner as AWS. Of course they rebranded their company into Redis after acquiring the name. Also it's not like AWS didn't contribute to Redis. I find it plausible that others might have contributed more to Redis than Redis themselves, if we exclude the contributions by the original developer when he was independent. Correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I know Redis (the company) focuses mainly on building custom stuff on top of Redis, instead of Redis itself.
- daghamm 3y ago
  Right from the horses mouth: https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=39863371 https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=39863371
  - redwood 3y ago
    Yes "What I don't understand is making the future of open source in the hands of what OSI says it's correct and wrong. Read the terms of the license, and understand if you are fine with them." Is well put
fransje26 3y ago
> On the other hand, I understand they are pissed that AWS is making money from their work and they get nothing back. That's fundamentally the way the cookie crumbles, with opensource software. Some companies might be better making money from your code, or might be better at integrating it into a global solution. If you're afraid that might happen, then you shouldn't make your software opensource.. And anyway, didn't AWS contribute about 5% of the code?

falcor84 3y ago

The way I see it, if you create or contribute to an open source project, you need to leave your ego at the door and be ok with the world benefiting from it without giving you anything back. If they aren't ok with it, they shouldn't have made it open source in the first place.

yxhuvud 3y ago
In this case the creator left the company a year ago or so.
- WJW 3y ago
  Time flies, it was actually 4 years ago: https://redis.com/blog/new-governance-for-redis/ https://redis.com/blog/new-governance-for-redis/
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tssge 3y ago

>On the other hand, I understand they are pissed that AWS is making money from their work and they get nothing back. Well, depending on how you look at things, it was never their work. Their business is and was exactly the same as AWS. However they paid money for the rights to the Redis name and copyright from the original developer after running their business for years in similar manner as AWS. Of course they rebranded their company into Redis after acquiring the name. Also it's not like AWS didn't contribute to Redis. I find it plausible that others might have contributed more to Redis than Redis themselves, if we exclude the contributions by the original developer when he was independent. Correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I know Redis (the company) focuses mainly on building custom stuff on top of Redis, instead of Redis itself.

daghamm 3y ago
Right from the horses mouth: https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=39863371 https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=39863371
- redwood 3y ago
  Yes "What I don't understand is making the future of open source in the hands of what OSI says it's correct and wrong. Read the terms of the license, and understand if you are fine with them." Is well put

fransje26 3y ago

> On the other hand, I understand they are pissed that AWS is making money from their work and they get nothing back. That's fundamentally the way the cookie crumbles, with opensource software. Some companies might be better making money from your code, or might be better at integrating it into a global solution. If you're afraid that might happen, then you shouldn't make your software opensource.. And anyway, didn't AWS contribute about 5% of the code?