[oefrha]

The problem is too many people are announcing OSS forks so it’s hard to align development efforts and users are confused. No one’s begging Redis Labs (which didn’t create Redis in the first place and only took over the brand with VC money when it was already popular) or whatever they’re called now to keep the bug fixes rolling. They only account for 20-50% of recent development anyway (50% if you attribute all “unknown” contributors to them), with the other 50% from (predominantly Chinese) cloud companies allegedly “pirating” their software, according to some.

I don’t typically ask people to RTFA because that’s against the rules, but you would have known all of the above if you bothered to read the article.

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What you’re describing isn’t a problem. Why does it matter if there are too many forks? Development also doesn’t need to be aligned to begin with.

It’s like complaining that there are too many implementations on GitHub of the same thing.

[ufocia]

> It’s like complaining that there are too many implementations on GitHub of the same thing.

You're spot on. People are bellyaching that the world doesn't operate according to their arbitrary rules.

Perhaps I'd be happier in a geocentric universe, but it doesn't make a non-geocentric universe bad per se.