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jeremyjhtoday at 5:00 PM1 replyview on HN

They knew what they were doing. They released OSS to build traction and a community. In some cases, the community contributed quite a lot to the quality of the software - even if not a lot of code. It never would have gained any traction or interest from enterprise buyers without that. Then that valuable software they had already given away was used to build a business that couldn’t create enough value on top of it.

The only people with any justification for hurt feelings are the community contributors.


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tedivmtoday at 5:56 PM

AWS literally paid for developers for the redis project, including the salary of core members. It's not like they didn't contribute back to the community.

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