> Redis CEO Rowan Trollope defended his company's move away from the more permissive interpretation of open source. He said the decision was designed to prevent AWS and Google from charging for Redis in their database services without paying for it.
This seems to be a similar reason why Elastic Search moved from open source.
From the founder/CTO of Elastic:
I never stopped believing in Open Source. I’m going on 25 years and counting as a true believer. So why the change 3 years ago? We had issues with AWS and the market confusion their offering was causing. So after trying all the other options we could think of, we changed the license.
But who knows what the future holds? Maybe the Redis team will change their mind and revert back the decision like Elastic Search did a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41394797
This seems to be a similar reason why Elastic Search moved from open source.
From the founder/CTO of Elastic:
I never stopped believing in Open Source. I’m going on 25 years and counting as a true believer. So why the change 3 years ago? We had issues with AWS and the market confusion their offering was causing. So after trying all the other options we could think of, we changed the license.
But who knows what the future holds? Maybe the Redis team will change their mind and revert back the decision like Elastic Search did a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41394797