Redis modules and the Commons Clause

Nothing surprising about influxdata, they went open core quite a long time ago, surrendering their market lead to actual free software alternatives (Prometheus).

Basically, they want the community, without surrendering control, and can't stand that anyone else can “take over” their project by funding a greater dev team (that's the real sticking point, not that they can't get funding, but that someone else may get more of it).