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> When developers do this is it really for the good of the community or is it a career advancing move?

Drew had the opportunity to make money with this fork by hosting it on SourceHut, and potentially creating subscribers out of redict contributors. Instead, he chose to host on Codeberg, a German non-profit, that is more GitHub like. I think, this alone, shows that (in this case) it’s about community and preservation over everything else.

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You don’t need to pay to contribute to a project on SourceHut. But you must like the antiquated e-mail-based workflow.

Ah! Good to know about contributors being free.

I’d still expect the size of redict’s community to be big enough to convert some folks to paid. But maybe I am overestimating the size of that community since the Redis company took over?

That's good to know. Fwiw, I don't know anything about Drew nor was I trying to comment about him.

I didn’t think you were commenting on Drew, fwiw. This keeps happening, and the people stepping up sometimes have different motivations. I believe Drew’s are well intentioned, and am pointing it out as “I think it’s possible to go well.”

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