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Salvatore Sanfilippo, better known by the nickname antirez, stepped down on Tuesday as the maintainer of Redis, a popular open-source database project released in 2009. Sanfilippo marked the occasion with a blog post in which he explains that he's more interested in creating software than maintaining it. "I write code in …

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  1. elDog

    antirez's comment referenced in the article is so good - a must read

    It is a well-spoken personal statement that doesn't try to coerce anyone to follow his viewpoints.

    http://antirez.com/news/122

    I wish Salvatore Sanfilippo the best of luck and look forward to his creativity in the future.

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  2. Pascal Monett Silver badge
    WTF?

    "the underground programming world"

    Um, why is it that there has to be an underground to everything IT ?

    There are programmers writing code for an open-source project. You can hardly get more above ground than that.

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    1. Nintendo1889
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      Re: "the underground programming world"

      it's those queer commie witches

      There's a reason there is no "comment" or "contact us" page on

      https://www.contributor-covenant.org/

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