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by NovaX 819 days ago
RedisLabs actually was a somewhat hostile takeover of the project by a complete outsider. It commercialized Redis prior, kept trying to trademark the project name, change the company name to RedisDB to confuse users. A few of those attempts were halted by antirez and the community, but after they had thousands of customers he relented. At the time he complained about his own financial challenges and reluctance, but it gave him a just reward at the cost of legitimizing RedisLabs. The history of that company was always as exploitive to Redis OSS and feigning being good citizens. While you may be right in general, this is actually a case of those exploiting OSS winning.