Redis Inc seeks control over future of Rust redis-rs client library
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Re: Redis Inc seeks control over future of Rust redis-rs client library
#2I have yet to hear a single positive story about this Redis Inc... it's like a giant company full of only assholes. Story after story is just "wow, these people all suck"
Re: Redis Inc seeks control over future of Rust redis-rs client library
#3I have yet to hear a single positive story about this Redis Inc... it's like a giant company full of only assholes. Story after story is just "wow, these people all suck"
Shame because I remember the original author being quite well regarded on places like here and Reddit.
Re: Redis Inc seeks control over future of Rust redis-rs client library
#4Alright gang, from now on, all community projects are named Sider.
Re: Redis Inc seeks control over future of Rust redis-rs client library
#5Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42239607
Re: Redis Inc seeks control over future of Rust redis-rs client library
#6I have yet to hear a single positive story about this Redis Inc... it's like a giant company full of only assholes. Story after story is just "wow, these people all suck"
I agree. At the same time, they're just 'doing their job' working at a for-profit company controlling the brand of open-source (core?) software.
Re: Redis Inc seeks control over future of Rust redis-rs client library
#7My theory is Redis is trying to take control over all popular libraries that interface with it so it can break protocol level compatibility to force vendor lock-in
Re: Redis Inc seeks control over future of Rust redis-rs client library
#8> "companies do consider protecting their trademarks where their reputation is challenged"
That's rich considering how they've been actively destroying their reputation by themselves.
Re: Redis Inc seeks control over future of Rust redis-rs client library
#98/10 uses of redis I have encountered in the world were people using it as a slower memcached.
1/10 are using it as a hope-for-the-best "queue" instead of rabbitmq, which is bullet-proof.
The last 1/10 actually use it as a novel "database" but every one of those instances also has mysql or postgres, rendering it completely redundant.
Redis itself was, for a while, a massive open security hole when the above people would put it on the open internet, where it would to quite useful to hackers as a free lua program runner.
Re: Redis Inc seeks control over future of Rust redis-rs client library
#10My theory is Redis is trying to take control over all popular libraries that interface with it so it can break protocol level compatibility to force vendor lock-in
My theory as well. I would almost bet on it.
Redis is risking its reputation in order to solidify its revenue stream in the face is rising threats like Valkey, etc.