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Re:Redis is open source again by palata on Friday May 02, 2025 @08:49AM (#43869061)
I meant they have the resources to copy any product in a way that will crush the competition.

As in, they can build an alternative to an open source project, offer it for free (i.e. at a loss) for years until they capture the market, and then start enshittifying. This is an antitrust problem.

> Elastic explicitly allowed AWS to copy and use their source code, then whined about it.

Yeah at the very least they should have started with a copyleft licence.

Re:Redis is open source again by growse on Friday May 02, 2025 @10:28AM (#43870262)
Ah I see what you mean. Yes, agree. But that's orthogonal to OSS and like you say is a reg issue.
Re:Redis is open source again by ikiris on Friday May 02, 2025 @07:11PM (#43875424)
Its really hard to make an argument that someone is selling under market to try to corner it when the alternative is free as well.
Re:Redis is open source again by palata on Friday May 02, 2025 @09:10PM (#43876074)
Well if there is a company paying salaries from it, it's not exactly free.