The end of vendor-backed open source?

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These projects defend themselves. Big cloud companies showed up, created a lot of services with open source software and made billions with it.

Not only did they not give anything back to the developers of the software, but they also destroyed the old model where the software is free and the customer pays for the support because now the customer was supported by the cloud company and not the developer of the software.

And now those projects changed their license and were forked. The forked project will again be developed by enthusiasts and volunteers and end in the exact same situation a few years down the road while companies like Amazon again made billions off of those projects.

Way to go!

I feel like you must have inserted your comment before reading any of the blog. Those cloud providers have been contributing to OSS Redis for years at this point. ++ the way their platform works isn't even competing with Redis' managed offering. You'd know that though if you made it more than halfway down the page.

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