Redis is no longer free software

This is the fundamental thing, companies, universities, small consultancies and consortiums, pooling resources to maintain shared infrastructure works for FOSS but there are only a few firms that make billions from it, maybe only Redhat, and injecting VC funds into a project leads to eventual enshitification when they want their 10x return on the investment at some point. I would also say that the features added by VC funding tend not to be sustainable and useful for the community but are often an attempt to corner and monopolize a market for the eventual imposition of rents, or the features are only attractive to other organizations trying to monopolize and to scale to billions of users when a much simpler and less complex software could have done the job sustainably using far fewer resources and with far less effort.

I see the threads between the push for SPAs and React and Kubernetes, containers and micro services, large clustered nosql databases, graphql and API-first design and funding from VCs with zwro-interest-rate money to throw around, crowding out simpler and more sustainable application development. How many apps which need layers of proxies, caching and clustering could just be a Django CRUD app on a server if they weren't trying to scale, and weren't taking and infrastructure inefficient way of doing so.