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Re:Redis is forked by snotrockets on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @02:03PM (#40055195)
> But when Redis started I think we didn't yet boardly understand the limitations of OSI licenses in the era of big tech cloud computing.

According to antirez, he understood the implications of licensing Redis as BSD: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39863371

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Re:Redis is forked by bornfreddy on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @03:02PM (#40055902)
But not in "the era of big tech cloud computing":

> That is, if I was still in charge, would I change license? But that's an impossible game to play, I'm away from the company for four years and I'm not facing the current issues with AWS impossible-to-compete-with scenario.

Not saying he would have decided any differently, just that cloud computing has changed open source situation for the worse.

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