Comment by kelsey98765431
Comment by kelsey98765431 2 days ago
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.