Amanda Brock talks about how Valkey fork highlights the error of relying on open source as a business model.

CEO Amanda Brock says that while it’s “great to see people simply being honest that [their software] is not open source,” this new category of license might just complicate matters — particularly as there are already well-established names for this kind of software.Within open source, we call the category that is proprietary with source that

“Open source as a digital public good needs government funding ” says Amanda Brick, Kelsey Hightower and Peter Zaitsev

Amanda Brock reacts to Percona’s report that 70% of Redis users are looking at alternatives and in particular the Linux Foundation hosted Valkey fork.

The challenge of the usage of the term “open source” in the context of AI is explored by The New Stack with CEO Amanda Brock raising concerns that a second definition may risk undermining the Open Source Software Definition.

In response to the Elastic shift back to open source software licensing, our CEO, Amanda Brock expanded on why the open source community is invested in licenses actually meeting the true definition of open source and the frictionless freedom this creates. The lines are often blurred in this ecosystem so clarity and transparency is critical to avoid open washing.

Amanda Brock welcomes long term open source software contributor Elastic back to the open source fold, as this prodigal child reverts to an open source software licence.