Re:Redis is open source again
by palata on Friday May 02, 2025 @09:02AM
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> Large companies using their scales to compete is a feature of capitalism, not a bug.
Large companies using their dominant position to compete is not a feature of capitalism. Antitrust laws prevent that. It's just that the US ignores them.
> AWS only gets to compete using their source code because they opened it in the first place. The competition was explicitly invited.
This part I agree with: if you build a permissively-licenced project, you don't get to whine when competitors use it in their own proprietary alternatives.
Large companies using their dominant position to compete is not a feature of capitalism. Antitrust laws prevent that. It's just that the US ignores them.
> AWS only gets to compete using their source code because they opened it in the first place. The competition was explicitly invited.
This part I agree with: if you build a permissively-licenced project, you don't get to whine when competitors use it in their own proprietary alternatives.