As one of the founders of Opscode, and of Chef, it's crazy to say that the reason we started Chef was because we didn't want to buy a support contract. We have

As one of the founders of Opscode, and of Chef, it's crazy to say that the reason we started Chef was because we didn't want to buy a support contract. We have no beef with Puppet - from our experience building fully automated infrastructures at scale, it wasn't the tool we wanted (and it still isn't,) so we built Chef - the tool we wanted. It turns out it's also the tool lots of other people wanted, and we're incredibly proud of it. There is nothing dirty here, no matter how much the internet wishes it to be so.