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> In an open core business model around an open source system it is fundamental that you take something useful out of the free software part.

Here's the problem and why what he's saying is a distinction without a difference. This rule is arbitrary, I had never seen it before and it's needed for redis not to be open core.

It very much is.

> I want Redis to be Redis, that is, this general tool that the developer can use in different ways to solve certain problems.

It's telling that the best that can be said is this ambiguous language. Nothing prevents these "different ways" and "certain problems" to change at any given moment.



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