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The original was posted on /r/opensource by /u/EyedApproximation on 2024-11-07 09:32:25+00:00.

Redis is so desperate after fork:

"Does open source licensing need fixing? How can devs and companies maintaining open source software protect themselves from big tech companies who make millions reselling their software, while not contributing much back to the community?

Our CEO Rowan Trollope was invited to be on a panel at TechCrunch Disrupt to discuss these questions and more alongside Docker CEO Scott Johnston, and Casey Aylward, a partner at Accel Ventures. Here’s what he had to say: “If a company is thinking about going open source, they’re going to hit a tripwire at some point—a time where you want to monetize your product and protect it against essentially monopolistic competitors with overwhelming advantages, like Google, Amazon, etc. At some point, you realize this business model is broken because somebody else is able to take your code and ship it.”

Trollope went on to say that big tech was able to “gaslight the industry at scale” about how it’s using open source software—because the official definitions of what is and isn’t open source weren’t written with the challenges of the hyperscaler era in mind.

Watch the whole panel for an interesting discussion about how we can fix the problems open source software maintainers are facing, and what startups building their businesses around open source should do to prepare."