The latter of which, at least, has done exactly what you say you don't want to have happen. Also, neither of those companies are even remotely BigCorp, they're quite small and nimble.
> has to spin up %nix boxes just to run Redis, there will be tens of thousands of hours wasted as each company gets this new environment up and secures and maintains it going forward.
Perhaps an incentive for them to find a way to make an unobtrusive patch that might be accepted into Redis mainline. Or an incentive to press Microsoft for real POSIX support.
None of this is an incentive for antirez, VMware, or anyone else, other than the people who want to run Redis in Windows.
At best, you're arguing the good of society, but getting agreement on what that means requires someone to have made a lot of moral and ethical judgements similar to yours.