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And redis doesn't want to pay contributors. Same gist, same shortsighted take on the whole matter. Based on the open source license redis had before, what did

And redis doesn't want to pay contributors. Same gist, same shortsighted take on the whole matter. Based on the open source license redis had before, what did aws do wrong? They didn't even have to contribute back, yet they did. Investors of redis based their SaaS offering on open source and community work. Now that they achieved critical mass they want to reneg on the license.

watermelon0 3y ago
There are multiple hosted Redis providers, not just Redis Labs and AWS. I'm not sure why Redis OSS couldn't live on as open source product, while companies (including Redis Labs) offer managed Redis solutions.
- forty 3y ago
  It's nearly impossible to compete with AWS on hosting. People host their stuff on AWS, it's so much easier to take the fully integrated solutions of AWS than a third party vendor that they have realistically no chance of competing. That plus the fact that a competitor wanting to sell to AWS customers would have to host their own offering on AWS for bandwidth cost and latency reasons, and being forced to pay a competitor to play is always a sign that unfair competition is going on. The rule of thumb is that you should be either be a platform or participate in the competition on that platform but never do both (applies to App Store, Amazon Marketplace, etc etc)
- skywhopper 3y ago
  It does live on. It’s called “Valkey” now.
chipdart 3y ago
> And redis doesn't want to pay contributors. Same gist, same shortsighted take on the whole matter. People who parrot these mindless rants on licensing purity would do well to learn what Redis inc actually is, what's it's relationship with Redis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redis_(company) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redis_(company)
- glenngillen 3y ago
  The Garantia Data rebrand and narrative reframing as the inventors of Redis is one of the greatest marketing efforts in OSS.

watermelon0 3y ago

There are multiple hosted Redis providers, not just Redis Labs and AWS. I'm not sure why Redis OSS couldn't live on as open source product, while companies (including Redis Labs) offer managed Redis solutions.

forty 3y ago
It's nearly impossible to compete with AWS on hosting. People host their stuff on AWS, it's so much easier to take the fully integrated solutions of AWS than a third party vendor that they have realistically no chance of competing. That plus the fact that a competitor wanting to sell to AWS customers would have to host their own offering on AWS for bandwidth cost and latency reasons, and being forced to pay a competitor to play is always a sign that unfair competition is going on. The rule of thumb is that you should be either be a platform or participate in the competition on that platform but never do both (applies to App Store, Amazon Marketplace, etc etc)
skywhopper 3y ago
It does live on. It’s called “Valkey” now.

chipdart 3y ago

> And redis doesn't want to pay contributors. Same gist, same shortsighted take on the whole matter. People who parrot these mindless rants on licensing purity would do well to learn what Redis inc actually is, what's it's relationship with Redis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redis_(company) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redis_(company)

glenngillen 3y ago
The Garantia Data rebrand and narrative reframing as the inventors of Redis is one of the greatest marketing efforts in OSS.