[pjmlp]

Doesn't matter, they are the rigthfull owners of Redis and the author has freely given ownership to them, and has been paid for.

Supermarket bills cannot be paid with pull requests.

[AnonymousPlanet]

Supermarket bills don't get paid by broken business models either. If Redis Inc never existed, Redis the software wouldn't be much worse for it. I'm starting to wonder who the entitled is in the first place.

[ufocia]

It's only broken when they go out of business. Just because you don't like the business model, doesn't mean it's broken.

[pritambarhate]

> rigthfull owners of Redis and the author has freely given ownership to them

By using BSD license Antirez has freely given it to the whole world, not the name Redis but the code. No matter how big the corporations, the cloud providers are just using that code the way Antirez intended when he used the BSD license. You can't blame the cloud providers for that.

> Supermarket bills cannot be paid with pull requests.

But one can become famous by writing quality open source software and this fame can be used to get very high paying jobs.

[stephenr]

> Supermarket bills cannot be paid with pull requests.

Nor with increasingly unnecessary and niche features aimed at "enterprise" customers, it seems.

One could probably even argue that buying the rights to the name of a popular permissively licensed project is a terrible way to pay said bills.

[ufocia]

One can argue a lot of things, and that's what we're doing here.

How is it terrible?

[stephenr]

It's apparently terrible because it didn't work.