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Re:Dragonflydb – A modern replacement for Redis and Memcached by ignoramous on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @04:27AM (#31567233)
> I think that not solving the problem by them, hurt first of all the oss community.

F/OSS means a very specific thing. If one can't possibly build a rocketship business, that isn't F/OSS fault. Of course, you've got an alt-movement in response to OSI and FSF's rigid adherence to its principles, speared on by tech companies who (think they) got burnt by other tech companies.

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25896162

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Re:Dragonflydb – A modern replacement for Redis and Memcached by ethbr0 on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @01:11PM (#31572061)
I think romange put it well: balance.

There's a lot of room between {completely F/OSS, that a cloud provider can implement and bankrupt the company supporting project development} and {completely evil closed source company like Oracle}.

In the end, we all want good software, with the maximum amount of permissions and source, free. It's just a question of tweaking the support model to get there.

IMHO, the "Don't call yourself OSS if you're not 100% OSI OSS" is counter-productive. But I understand why they do it, and I understand the history and abuses that caused them to do it. I'd just say if we no-true-Scotsman our approach in a way that precludes profitable, sustainable OSS companies... we're going to have less quality OSS. :(

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