Hello chatmasta, sorry, I can't share the details. Btw, yep makes sense to wonder about this since is a particular setup. Moreover Redis is BSD and not GPL which makes things more interesting. At the same time there are many projects that lost traction once the project leader decided to quit. So many variables indeed... So basically the value is given by a set of things. How important is for a company to have you on board, how important are your design decisions for the project, how strategic is that the project leader does not start another company instead of joining forces, and so forth... I think both parts are happy about the deal in this case.
Maybe all the pieces had some weight. All in all it was pretty logical, they were building a serious Redis company, I was not doing it, but was elsewhere. There was something not matching in the equation... It is logical to join forces, and it is more natural that the Redis development is sustained by the company that is focusing the most on Redis itself. So I think both Redis Labs and the Redis project itself are stronger from this simplification :-)
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Hello chatmasta, sorry, I can't share the details. Btw, yep makes sense to wonder about this since is a particular setup. Moreover Redis is BSD and not GPL which makes things more interesting. At the same time there are many projects that lost traction once the project leader decided to quit. So many variables indeed... So basically the value is given by a set of things. How important is for a company to have you on board, how important are your design decisions for the project, how strategic is that the project leader does not start another company instead of joining forces, and so forth... I think both parts are happy about the deal in this case.
How much of it is just being able to use your brand and to be able to say they have you on board?
Or since you probably can't answer that, does it factor into the equation at all?
Maybe all the pieces had some weight. All in all it was pretty logical, they were building a serious Redis company, I was not doing it, but was elsewhere. There was something not matching in the equation... It is logical to join forces, and it is more natural that the Redis development is sustained by the company that is focusing the most on Redis itself. So I think both Redis Labs and the Redis project itself are stronger from this simplification :-)