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I’m amazed Antirez didn’t fork Redis and start fresh like Monty did MySQL. AWS, Azure and GC would be thrilled to support his work on an OSS fork. After 9 years

I’m amazed Antirez didn’t fork Redis and start fresh like Monty did MySQL. AWS, Azure and GC would be thrilled to support his work on an OSS fork. After 9 years surely any contractual constraints have expired? Maybe a sense of moral obligation? Or perhaps Redis Inc recruited him to prevent exactly this? Either way we all very much appreciate the work you have done. Redis has been a game changer for many of us running small businesses on tiny budgets.

jerrygenser 2y ago
He has stock options in redis labs, so existing financial ties - although he mentions in his blog his comp for coming isn't wild, I wonder what the option package looks like
- Cpoll 2y ago
  > He has stock options in redis labs, so existing financial ties I was thinking "just divest," but they're not public yet, so you're right that it's a possibility.