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Redis is no longer OSS (fosstodon.org)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/programming

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (3 children)

And yet fuck all people do. Ever.

[–] alr 20 points 9 months ago

If you're random Joe Schmoe who happens to need a database, I don't expect you to contribute. But when you're of the largest tech firms in the world...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

People, maybe. Corporations though? They absolutely contribute:

https://lwn.net/Articles/915435/

Oracle, AMD, Google, Intel are all well represented.

[–] silasmariner 1 points 9 months ago

Absolutely not true. I know this is just my experience, but I've worked with plenty of devs who've contributed prs and/or donations back to OSS projects in the past, and all my former employers have opensourced at least some of their software