You've dismissed my comment without giving any backing to it. What Sourcehut are doing is the same as Redis. They provide the core product at [0], which is completely open source, and redis labs [1] provides a hosted offering with support.
It's also on a totally different scale. With all due respect to sr.ht, it's a much more niche offering than redis, with far less demands.
The governing committee of sourcehut is a single person - ddevault. He clearly states his motivations and intentions regarding sourcehut in his regular updates. It is easy to predict the direction in which sourcehut will be developed over the next year.
The article we are commenting on states that the governing committee of Redis consists of representatives from Redis Labs, AWS, and Alibaba. Their agendas are not as transparent as ddevault's and mark a potentially significant departure from antirez's plans for redis.
Most importantly, as a member of a team that is just setting up a redis instance, I naturally wonder what the alternatives are so that we can properly evaluate them. Because we are a small team and strapped for cash, we would prefer to evaluate free (as in freedom) options. This is what led to my original question.
sourcehut (https://sr.ht) is a good counterexample. It funds itself and is completely open source.
Anyway, I am not suggesting that the project has been compromised just because it has been commercialized. I don't do all my development in open source and don't expect anyone else to do so either.