[sonarlunar]

Redis was not funded by those companies. Salvatore was sponsored to work on his own project they had a business need for. All copyright and trademarks belonged and still belong to Salvatore, according to redis.io

To my understanding, this was a sponsorship, ie a support contract to debug and improve an open source product VMware and Pivotal (same people, different name) were using and depending upon for their products.

AWS, on the other hand... With Elasticsearch and Redis... ;-)

[detaro]

How is "paying the creator money to work on it" not "funding a project"?

[sonarlunar]

Well in that case, we are all funding Jeff Bezos and he owes us.