As a reminder, Redis was widely replaced by its non-vibe-coded fork Valkey.
However: this conversation is completely out of topic but people instead of talking about AI and code, which is a tabu, will move the conversation to personal attacks and shit like that.
Amazon has stolen enormous wealth from you and your collaborators.
People cheer for the hyperscalers even though AWS and GCP are not at all open source themselves, charge absurd margin, and do everything in their power to lock you in.
It's really unfortunate.
Thank you for Redis.
Hopefully AI gives them extra competition. There doesn't seem to be a moat for them yet apart from distribution. Hopefully that holds. The world needs competition and less concentration of power.
They didn't, because the idea is sufficiently non-obvious, but ideas are protected by patents, not copyright.
Even RMS recommended using LGPL in some cases to maximize overall freedom by not making your competitors copy it. In the case of Redis, GPL probably would've maximised freedom (but not revenue) as Amazon still could've used it and released any changes they made.
Valkey has diverged from Redis, gaining features like vector search and multithreading.
Hell, I did that in a previous project.
OSI purity is hyperscaler brainwashing. They don't want to pay you. They want to take your labor.
Amazon and Google have made billions of dollars off of Redis while the original authors and the company formed around it have gotten none of that.
The best licenses for new database projects are fair source and open core.
Tell the hyperscalers, "fuck you, pay me".
Fuck valkey. Fuck Amazon. Fuck Google.
They're fucking thieves. And they'll lay you off the second they get the chance.
some of those profits are passed on to users too. valkey on aws is cheaper for customers too.
You must be joking.
Until the whole of AWS and GCP are open source, they're taking absurd margins on your business and locking you in.
If you are already locked in then whats the benfit of choosing redis from a pointy haired boss prespective.
They're attacking another company that is powerless to defend itself.
And the community cheers it on.
How kind of them to ensure valkey remains "open" so you can continue to purchase it through their hyperscaler product. They'll get their margins through your other usage and they won't pass that along to the Redis project. They'll be keeping that for themselves.
Sucking the oxygen out of the room while they metastasize into every area of the economy they can grow into. Dumping on healthy markets like an invasive species. Then they buy up the shells of once healthy companies, lay off the workers, outsource the labor.
If you don't want people to use your software and make money, then don't release it with a licence that explicitly says you may make money from this software.
What was stolen?
Okay, so you don't like AWS or Google. Fine. What about the thousands of other hosting companies that use Linux, Apache, Nginx, PHP, Ruby, Python, and Perl for their offerings? Are Yunohost and Dreamhost evil for using Postgres and not open-sourcing their orchestration layer?
The precise reason I build my sites on top of Linux and Apache and Postgres is because I can switch hosts at any time. But what you're advocating for is being completely locked in to the hosting service that is controlled by the company that happened to have authored the database. I would never use a product from a company that had that attitude because I would be completely beholden to them.
I get your frustration that AWS and Google make it hard for database vendors to release their work under a truly open source license. But what you're advocating for would destroy a huge amount of the value of self-hosting and open-source.