The only brainwashing is by companies who built their customer base and reputation on open source convincing anyone that changing the rules is a fair thing to d

The only brainwashing is by companies who built their customer base and reputation on open source convincing anyone that changing the rules is a fair thing to do to the community that made them successful. The idea that changing the Redis license will keep people from moving to AWS’s hosted version is sadly delusional. But bailing on open source entirely does ensure that many folks will no longer give Redis a second glance. What happened here is not that AWS and Valkey forked Redis. Rather, Redis forked itself into a closed system and Valkey et al are picking up the torch of the open source project.