Doesn't matter, they are the rigthfull owners of Redis and the author has freely given ownership to them, and has been paid for.
Supermarket bills cannot be paid with pull requests.
Supermarket bills cannot be paid with pull requests.
By using BSD license Antirez has freely given it to the whole world, not the name Redis but the code. No matter how big the corporations, the cloud providers are just using that code the way Antirez intended when he used the BSD license. You can't blame the cloud providers for that.
> Supermarket bills cannot be paid with pull requests.
But one can become famous by writing quality open source software and this fame can be used to get very high paying jobs.
Nor with increasingly unnecessary and niche features aimed at "enterprise" customers, it seems.
One could probably even argue that buying the rights to the name of a popular permissively licensed project is a terrible way to pay said bills.
How is it terrible?