The battle between real open source vs. faux open source heats up
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Redis Labs CEO Ofer Bengal told Ars Technica that one reason for this was its new "open-source" Common Clause license. "The community now understands that the original concept of open source has to be fixed because it isnt suitable anymore to the modern era where cloud companies use their monopoly power to adopt any successful open-source project without contributing anything to it," Bengal said. Jim Jagielski, co-founder of the Apache Software Foundation , tweeted, "Anyone who sees the current situation as anything that #opensource hasnt had to handle for over 2 decades is either clueless or dishonest. As Salil Deshpand, a venture capitalist with BaenCapital , explained, " Amazon takes Redis , gives very little back, and runs it as a service, re-branded as AWS Elasticache. The OSI, backed by numerous partners like Debian , Mozilla , and The Document Foundation , said, "Without this single, standard definition of open source, software development as we know it would not be possible .
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