Comment by ezekg 2 days ago
Congrats on the v8 release. It's super interesting to see that Heroku now uses Valkey instead of Redis [0], with no notes re: compatibility yet.
Yet another project to add to the books of successful forks re: rug-pull?
My point was that Redis' bet on cloud vendors paying them seems to be failing.
I'm torn on the moral issues of the re-licensing, but I'm firmly happy about the practical implications. Redis vs. Valkey is as competitive as it gets, since users can switch between the two so seamlessly (for now, at least). That's good for the industry. I expect to see a flurry of improvements to both in the coming years as they try to come out on top (some may be redundant, but I nonetheless think the pace will be faster).
When will these money hungry vultures realize that you cannot transition a foss "brand" into a proprietary system no matter how you pitch the tree tier? You can't have your name recognition and eat it too. These groups don't realize that "NewThing from the developers of Redis" holds so much more weight than "Redis is now closed source and you have to pay for it"? There is a net negative value in detonating the bomb that is a license change versus making something new and throwing the existing name's support behind it. Just look at literally every well known license changed software becoming irrelevant while the foss fork with a new name has no problem getting traction? Just look at the graveyard of Solaris, OpenOffice and others. The open source community deeply despises these relicensing scams and has proven time and time again not to fall for ignorant consumer brand identity marketing tactics?
These companies are backed into a corner. Even if they "realize" that they are doomed the investors won't allow them to just shut down.
"NewThing from the developers of Redis" holds so much more weight than "Redis is now closed source and you have to pay for it"
I disagree with this part. The problem we're now seeing with open core is that almost everybody just wants the core. They don't want enterprise. They don't want the new thing.
My guy, the money-hungry vultures are more so the ones exploiting open-source without contributing anything back -- not even financially, let alone development or maintenance.
It's high time permissive OSS licenses died together with free maintenance and support.
Heroku cant use OSS Redis anymore because of the license change to prevent Cloud vendors from running OSS Redis and charging for it