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Re:Redis Adopts Dual Source-Available Licensing by pjmlp on Friday March 22, 2024 @03:24AM (#39788147)
Contributing code back alone doesn't help, if there isn't any sustainable source of income, those devs aren't going to pay supermarket and the landlord with the pull requests from big corp.
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Re:Redis Adopts Dual Source-Available Licensing by Dylan16807 on Friday March 22, 2024 @03:39AM (#39788242)
If your goal is just to make the software exist, then being put out of business isn't a problem. Which is how I read the hypothetical.
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Re:Redis Adopts Dual Source-Available Licensing by pjmlp on Friday March 22, 2024 @04:28AM (#39788504)
It is piramid, before the software gets to exist, living must be possible.
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Re:Redis Adopts Dual Source-Available Licensing by Dylan16807 on Friday March 22, 2024 @11:20AM (#39791587)
Yes? I don't see the issue here, except that old observation that entities built to solve a problem almost never want to shut down once the problem is solved.
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