On: The race to replace Redis

[ufocia]

> This is more about preventing AWS from eating their lunch by providing redis-as-a-service, without paying any sort of compensation to the redis developers.

But the developers licensed the software at no charge. What kind of compensation are they entitled to then?

Sounds like a case of sellers remorse/take-backsies one of the problems that open source was aiming to solve.

[bramblerose → ufocia]

They are not entitled to compensation over their previous work, but you/me/AWS are also not entitled to their _future_ work.

[mahkeiro → bramblerose]

But when you see that currently Redis is mainly developed by Chinese companies or AWS all of this is rather ironic.

[ufocia → mahkeiro]

Not sure what you meant. Is it wrong for Chinese companies or AWS to develop Redis or is it great, or something in-between?

I wonder how many bellyachers here contributed to Redis vs. just leeched. (Not a rhetorical question.) How many are just in the peanut gallery (just like I).

[jamespo → mahkeiro]

5% of contributions is not “mainly” from AWS

[8note → bramblerose]

Does this mean they aren't accepting external contributions any more?

If I put in a commit, what is redis going to pay me for executing my code?

[ufocia → bramblerose]

Absolutely!