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Re:Redis is open source again by tedivm on Thursday May 01, 2025 @08:47PM (#43865038)
The reason the ValKey fork happened so fast is that AWS was already sponsoring developers for the open source redis project.
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Re:Redis is open source again by SweetLlamaMyth on Thursday May 01, 2025 @10:10PM (#43865468)
And not merely "some developers", but a member of the Redis Core Team: https://redis.io/blog/redis-core-team-update/
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Re:Redis is open source again by lolinder on Friday May 02, 2025 @02:30PM (#43873232)
Yeah, the whole "they give nothing back" line might be the worst part of the PR around these changes. It's obvious to anyone familiar with the ecosystem that it's not true, which damages the credibility of Redis's argument in the eyes of the people who matter most.
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