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0 pointsRicoElectrico2y ago0 comments

Indeed Redis was open core before the switch, sorry that I didn't check. And being open core was not enough for them, SMH.

Maybe such is the destiny of foundational open source server software... If it's "cloudable" no profitable business will come out of it.

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twsted2y ago· 3 in thread

> Maybe such is the destiny of foundational open source server software... If it's "cloudable" no profitable business will come out of it.

I really hope it's not true, but many clues suggest it might be.

I like the concept of open core with a very liberal license. Perhaps there should be a special "MIT-X" (an example, it would be certainly not compatible) license with a clause borrowed from that of Llama2 for large organizations, as Additional Commercial Terms [0].

[0] https://ai.meta.com/llama/license/

miraculixx2y ago

You means this?

"2. Additional Commercial Terms. If, on the Llama 2 version release date, the monthly active users of the products or services made available by or for Licensee, or Licensee’s affiliates, is greater than 700 million monthly active users in the preceding calendar month, you must request a license from Meta, which Meta may grant to you in its sole discretion, and you are not authorized to exercise any of the rights under this Agreement unless or until Meta otherwise expressly grants you such rights."

miraculixx2y ago

KeyDB, a multithreaded drop-in replacement for Redis, under MIT, owned by Snap.

https://docs.keydb.dev/

stephenr2y ago

I realise they use the term "drop in replacement", but without Lua support it really isn't.

That doesn't mean it isn't worth exploring but lacking a major piece of functionality means it explicitly can't be "dropped in" to replace redis.

reconditerose2y ago· 2 in thread

Redis was open before the trademark was acquired from antirez by Garantia Data, who then re-branded themselves as RedisLabs, and then as Redis. This was definitely not a predestined outcome, there are plenty of other foundational open source server software that transitioned to a software foundation. While I worked on the redis core team (https://redis.com/blog/new-governance-for-redis/), I advocated to move it to a foundation.

wmf2y ago

Foundations don't pay the bills either; see Linkerd.

singpolyma32y ago

Yes, but the point is that the project started as, and gained success as, a not-paying-the-bills endeavour. The fact that RedisLabs desires to get enough to pay a bunch of staff is not actually a requirement for redis to exist and thrive, they just happen to own the trademark.

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