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Re:The race to replace Redis by tsimionescu on Friday March 29, 2024 @12:42AM (#39860788)
Wasn't AWS a major contributor to Redis? How are they "freeloading"?
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Re:The race to replace Redis by 420698008 on Friday March 29, 2024 @01:41AM (#39861041)
I'm pretty sure ElastiCache has been around longer than Redis Labs too, so it's not like AWS undercut them, plus RL got a ton of free market research from it
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Re:The race to replace Redis by jsmeaton on Friday March 29, 2024 @05:51AM (#39862227)
In this case that’s true and why I said I don’t think it applies here. Typically it does though.

Open source services are in a weird spot. They spend tonnes of money developing it and big providers are able to cannibalise as soon as something becomes popular at very little cost to themselves.

I think we do need something between fully free and fully closed where cloud providers pay some kind of licensing. It’s a problem worth solving.

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