The race to replace Redis

Re:The race to replace Redis by ufocia on Friday March 29, 2024 @01:52AM (#39861077)

> This is more about preventing AWS from eating their lunch by providing redis-as-a-service, without paying any sort of compensation to the redis developers.

But the developers licensed the software at no charge. What kind of compensation are they entitled to then?

Sounds like a case of sellers remorse/take-backsies one of the problems that open source was aiming to solve.

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Re:The race to replace Redis by bramblerose on Friday March 29, 2024 @02:51AM (#39861332)

They are not entitled to compensation over their previous work, but you/me/AWS are also not entitled to their _future_ work.

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Re:The race to replace Redis by mahkeiro on Friday March 29, 2024 @04:16AM (#39861726)

But when you see that currently Redis is mainly developed by Chinese companies or AWS all of this is rather ironic.

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Re:The race to replace Redis by jamespo on Friday March 29, 2024 @05:15AM (#39862015)

5% of contributions is not “mainly” from AWS

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Re:The race to replace Redis by ufocia on Friday March 29, 2024 @08:05AM (#39863023)

Not sure what you meant. Is it wrong for Chinese companies or AWS to develop Redis or is it great, or something in-between?

I wonder how many bellyachers here contributed to Redis vs. just leeched. (Not a rhetorical question.) How many are just in the peanut gallery (just like I).

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Re:The race to replace Redis by ufocia on Friday March 29, 2024 @08:00AM (#39862987)

Absolutely!

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Re:The race to replace Redis by 8note on Saturday March 30, 2024 @03:56PM (#39878058)

Does this mean they aren't accepting external contributions any more?

If I put in a commit, what is redis going to pay me for executing my code?

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