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It's not about non-compete, it's about copyleft. What's blocking redis and and with them a whole generation of open source based startups from embracing true op
by tinco 1y ago
It's not about non-compete, it's about copyleft. What's blocking redis and and with them a whole generation of open source based startups from embracing true open source licenses is that there is no copyleft license for the cloud age. GPLv3 is 18 years old by now, and the big cloud providers have captured the OSI to prevent a GPLv4 from ever happening.
The open source ethos is not to give code to do as you wish with. It's to ensure users have control over the software and are not controlled by it.
It's not about blocking competition, it's about levelling the playing field. You are supporting the cause of trillion dollar megacorporations in their campaign of capitalizing on open source software over the backs of passionate trailblazers.
The maintainers of Valkey are being tricked by these companies to continue to develop for a project that can be easily exploited.