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New Redis licence: No more BSD, more SSPL

Stick a fork in me, I'm done: Redis slaps MongoDB’s SSPL licence on its OSS core, blames cloud, complexity

The kiss of death for open-source Redis? A reasonable commercial decision? The end of a community?

Edward Targett March 21, 2024

SLAs

software

Opinion

The evolving role of technology industry SLAs

"SLAs are becoming differentiators and, in many cases, the ultimate decider in purchasing decisions..."

Alex McMullan December 20, 2023

Hashicorp

open source

News

HashiCorp’s “poison pill” shift away from open source triggers call for Terraform foundation

Now over 300 companies and individuals are calling for HashiCorp to reverse its decision or see Terraform forked and the community decamp...

Edward Targett August 18, 2023

Avaya

cybercrime

News

Man admits to $88m Avaya piracy scheme

A guilty plea has been entered in the case of a business owner who sold dodgy unlock codes for telecoms devices

Shaun Nichols August 01, 2023

Prepare to pay for Akka -- the open source toolkit you may not know you're using

Prepare to pay for Akka -- the open source toolkit you may not know you're using

Adobe, Apple, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, HPE, Tesla: All of these companies and hundreds more in the Fortune 500 are users of the open source Akka toolkit and runtime for building resilient message-driven applications for Java and Scala. Few have given back to the community in a meaningful way, says...

Edward Targett September 07, 2022

Docker Desktop drives devs to difficult decisions

Docker Desktop drives devs to difficult decisions

Let us say grace... period is over.

The Stack January 26, 2022