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Dummies don't understand how to get paid for open source. sneak some backdoors into widely used tools and get the glowies to pay you for the key. Simple as
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they're right to be angry
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"Everyone is free to use this source code!"
"Noo! How could this have happened?!"
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lol it seems to happen at every level. I've seen a bunch of small projects where the guy suddenly realises he has somewhat of a userbase and awkwardly starts trying to add pay-blocks into what used to be a free thing.
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smh. I just added bounties for features and had all the users REEEE about me only doing paid bounties, despite the fact I only ever got a handful.
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Lmao only poorcels and leeches care (99.9% of devs). If someone wants to start charging for a product they were maintaining for free they absolutely should and anyone complaining about it should try working for free themselves and see if it works out for then (it won't).
Frick your cuck licence. Get paid for your time.
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The actual redis creator cashed out in 2020 when he sold the Redis brand, Redis the company is just a VC puppateered corpse trying to turn a profit.
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it's not really that they're using it, it's that they're selling it
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Those big providers are paying devs to work on it, why shouldn't they be able to use it.
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are they
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When these companies are heavily reliant on an open source project they pay devs to work on it. Just look at how Linux devs work for Microsoft and Google.
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If they want to do business with commercial entities, they need to be able to sell their product.
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Then don't make it open source and rely on those entities for free labor.
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They are not open source they are proprietary. They are trying to pull a microsoft and get people to buy it even if they could have used it for free before hand.
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Redis the company didn't make Redis, they're just being beaten at their own game.
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Snapshots:
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/04/redis-license-change-and-forking-are-a-mess-that-everybody-can-feel-bad-about/:
ghostarchive.org
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archive.ph (click to archive)
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