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Out of curiosity what is your definition of a freeloader? Is someone who’s been coding but hasn’t made a single OSS commit a freeloader ?
by Exuma 3y ago
Out of curiosity what is your definition of a freeloader? Is someone who’s been coding but hasn’t made a single OSS commit a freeloader ?
- wmf 3y agoIt sounds like there are companies selling Terraform with a wrapper on top and not paying Hashicorp anything.
- yellowapple 3y agoI know of precisely zero such companies, and I can't imagine how such a company would even have customers in the first place when Terraform already has a $0 pricetag. I could maybe understand this for Consul or Vault, since those are actual hostable services that could probably be resold - but I don't know of anyone reselling those, either.
- chunk_waffle 3y agoMaybe Gruntwork.io, makers of Terragrunt, I think? I always just stuck to vanilla Terraform but recall coming across them at some point.
- yellowapple 3y agoI wouldn't call them a competitor by any stretch; more like a partner. A Terragrunt codebase just wraps Terraform, with the same exact backends (including Hashicorp's SaaS offerings) and the same exact providers and everything.
- comprev 3y agoHow long before HashiCorp integrate Gruntwork’s “solution” into their own Terraform codebase I wonder?
- lijok 3y agoPulumi, scalr, env0, spacelift, digger, controlmonkey, terrateam, terrakube Dozens of them out there I wonder with great interest which one of these got hashicorp worries about their wallet enough to make this move. Could it be env0 raising 42M earlier this year?
- eppp 3y agoI would imagine that its someone who builds a profitable offering on the back of OSS and doesn't give back anything.
- hashtag-til 3y agoYes, exactly.
- tensor 3y agoSo every person who uses Linux for work and doesn't make a kernel contribution is a freeloader? A plant shop keeper running Linux on their work computer is a freeloader? I don't think that's even the intent of the GNU movement let alone all of open source.
- skrowl 3y ago[dead]