[arp242]

> instead of having OSS contributions from some of the best engineers in the world, redis (and other now OSS software) should compete with FAANG to pay those engineers.

This already happens. Amazon is never the main contributor. That blog post talks about 33 commits for MariaDB for 2023. Like, that's great and all, but that project doesn't run on those 33 commits. It's the same with Elastic; when they did their license change I looked a bit at the commit history, and something like >95% was by Elastic.

And all these projects that did license changes are fine.

[zellyn]

reconditerose wrote above:

> At that time Redis created an open governing board that took over, with a majority of contributions coming from the community during this time (~25% of contributions came from Redis engineers, ~75% from the community, including ~3% that came from me personally).

So, while I believe you're true in the general case, you appear to be wrong about Redis in particular.