StrypeySep 22, 2025

A couple of years back, a bunch of projects started switching to proprietary Source Available licenses like #SSPL. I predicted that they would soon regret it, as they started to be replaced with forks of their own software. Feeling pretty smug reading this ...

"Redis bets big on an open source return

The company is hopeful that changing its license will allow it to better compete with the Valkey fork."

#MattAsay, May 2025

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3975620/redis-bets-big-on-an-open-source-return.html

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#SourceAvailable #Redis #Valkey

Redis bets big on an open source return

The company is hopeful that changing its license will allow it to better compete with the Valkey fork.

InfoWorld
Show threadStrypeyMar 8, 2020
"While it may seem that such an #OpenSource contribution model that depends on just a few core contributors for so much of the code wouldn’t be sustainable, the opposite is true. Each vendor can take particular interest in just a few projects, committing code to those, while 'free riding' on other projects for which it derives less strategic value."
- #MattAsay
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3268001/open-source-isnt-the-community-you-think-it-is.html
Open source isn’t the community you think it is

The irony is that what makes open source work—and differ from commercial software—is that only a few developers do the major work on any project