So Redis, HAproxy, MongoDB, ect .. should feel good that nowdays multi-billion $ companies take your product and put more people on it that you do internally, sell it and give you nothing?
Explain to me how a startup of 10-20 people can compete against AWS once they grab what you're working on to make an AWS service?
Changes Mongo, Redis made to their licence were made to protected against those practices.
1. Redis — according to its creator — has always been, is, and will continue to be FOSS. Redis Labs did not create Redis, nor can they re-license it.
2. HAproxy is still GPLv2.
3. Redis Labs's CCL and MongoDB's SSPL are not open source licenses, but their purveyors sure do like to give off the impression that they are open source. If you want to keep your code proprietary, keep it proprietary. Don't pretend to be open source. If you are not okay with others using your work, even making money off of it, as long they adhere to the rules of the open source licence you used to license your work to them, then don't license your work to them under open source licenses, or don't cry foul when they use it under the terms of the license.
Explain to me how a startup of 10-20 people can compete against AWS once they grab what you're working on to make an AWS service?
Changes Mongo, Redis made to their licence were made to protected against those practices.