Redis ownership is decentralized as well. Redis the company owns the trademark and they were responsible for about one fifth of commits in recent years. The majority of contributions is external to them. The code base is BSD licensed and anyone is free to create a fork and continue development. Which looks like it is exactly what will happen now that Redis has decided that they don't need the input of the other 80% of commits from external contributors. Those contributors will inevitably shift their attention to one or several of the other forks. The Linux Foundation's Valkey fork looks like one of the main likely candidates for committers to rally behind. The biggest change will be the name change. The notion of the likes of Google, Amazon, Microsoft, etc. abandoning their Redis user base is unthinkable. They'll continue to offer that and they'll continue to lead the development of Redis. Redis the company will loose what little influence they had. I've never heard of anyone using hosted Redis directly from them.
In general, projects like Postgresql and other successful open source projects have in common that generally contributors are not coming from a single company. Community diversity is what gives open source projects resilience against corporate shenanigans. Mysql in some form or another will persevere as well. It has survived a lot of this stuff already and it's still there as an open source option.
I use it as a guide to select which things I use. I look for three things in open source tools and libraries that I use: 1) proper licensing (No agpl or shared source nonsense) 2) community diversity (no single companies that can change their mind), 3) active & recent development demonstrating the project is healthy.
Of course the tragedy of individuals like Simon Riggs passing away is that they are so important for the health of these projects. With postgresql, I'm confident that there are others that can step up. But still, he's been very important and it's important to recognize their amazing contributions. The OSS world is full of these type of hero developers and it's what makes using OSS so wonderful. With Redis, that person would be Antirez. And he stepped back from Redis the company some time ago. It will be interesting to see what he does post fork.
In general, projects like Postgresql and other successful open source projects have in common that generally contributors are not coming from a single company. Community diversity is what gives open source projects resilience against corporate shenanigans. Mysql in some form or another will persevere as well. It has survived a lot of this stuff already and it's still there as an open source option.
I use it as a guide to select which things I use. I look for three things in open source tools and libraries that I use: 1) proper licensing (No agpl or shared source nonsense) 2) community diversity (no single companies that can change their mind), 3) active & recent development demonstrating the project is healthy.
Of course the tragedy of individuals like Simon Riggs passing away is that they are so important for the health of these projects. With postgresql, I'm confident that there are others that can step up. But still, he's been very important and it's important to recognize their amazing contributions. The OSS world is full of these type of hero developers and it's what makes using OSS so wonderful. With Redis, that person would be Antirez. And he stepped back from Redis the company some time ago. It will be interesting to see what he does post fork.