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canpolat OP Mod ,
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I believe you can replace start with the command that is suitable for your system (e.g., xdg-open for linux).

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Here is my understanding of author’s position: Stay away from companies like Redis and ElasticSearch. They are building software with a proprietary mindset (the fact that they have tight control over product strategy and development demonstrates this) only to realize that they are being devoured by bigger fish. It’s a business model problem, not an open source problem.

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I don’t think that is relevant from author’s (and OSI’s) point of view.

canpolat OP ,
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Sorry, I don’t follow your reasoning. Why would a company not making money be a relevant problem for the advocates of FOSS? FOSS is about freedom. It never had an opinion about money. Money has always been irrelevant. Some people may not like it, and they are free to not use non-free licenses. And FOSS advocates will warn users about that (as they did in the past). FOSS doesn’t have an obligation to offer a solution to every problem in the software industry.

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That’s an unnecessarily strong reaction. Money clearly matters for some things. But that’s not all that matters. There are many people releasing FOSS without any financial expectations. Clearly, money doesn’t matter to those people on that context. Trying to argue that “money should matter also for those people on that context” doesn’t make too much sense to me. Nobody is forcing anybody to release FOSS.

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Here is the link to the original website (an NGO that monitors blocked websites in Turkey): ifade.org.tr/…/distrowatch-erisime-engelledi/

And here is the Google translation of the text on that page:

The IP address of the DistroWatch platform, which provides news, reviews, rankings and general information about Linux distributions, was blocked by the National Cyber ​​Incident Response Center (USOM) on the grounds of “IP hosting/spreading malware”.

canpolat OP ,
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I think you are highlighting an important point that are missed by other commenters emphasizing the developer. I prefer GPL over MIT license. But this is a possible fallback if Redis decides to change its licensing (like several others did).

I think these kind of products have strategic significance for MS for their Azure offering. They are probably preparing to offer this there (in addition to and as an alternative to Redis). So, it makes sense for Microsoft to release this with an OSS license (otherwise no one will adopt it).

canpolat OP Mod ,
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Mine happened when I watched Paolo Perrota’s Git courses on Pluralsight. That’s when it clicked for me.

canpolat OP Mod ,
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I don’t think I read that one. I created a separate link-post for that one. Thanks.

canpolat OP Mod ,
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What checkout actually does. Here is a past comment with links to the courses (they are pay-walled, unfortunately)

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