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Re:Redis is open source again by motorest on Friday May 02, 2025 @01:18AM (#43866431)
> On principal I will not use the Amazon fork, because I don’t want to support a company that would prefer to fork a project rather than fork over some cash.

That's specious reasoning at best.

The whole point of FLOSS is that anyone is free to use it how they see fit. Whether it's a hobbyist doing a pet project or a FANG using it as their core infrastructure, they are granted the right to use it how they see fit.

That's exactly why they started to use it to begin with. Isn't it?

When a random corporation decides to pull the rug on the established user base expecting to profit from the pain of migrating existing services, it is not the user base who is the bad actor.

Re:Redis is open source again by zwaps on Saturday May 03, 2025 @10:46PM (#43884082)
Aws killing off an oss company by shady anti competitive tactics and inherenting their code for free is certainly not in the spirit of oss

So if you are only saying it is their right, well, as per know CLA it is well within the oss companies right to change license for new version

You also knew this when you started using it. Why do you call it a rug pull now when you knew it could happen?