It's too bad you're being downvoted, because you are more right than wrong. My listening of it is the same as yours. he wasn't calling the practice malicious to

It's too bad you're being downvoted, because you are more right than wrong. My listening of it is the same as yours. he wasn't calling the practice malicious towards the community itself; in fact it's SOP. he clearly (?) meant it was malicious (his own self-amused take on it, not "evil" malicious) towards the 4 targets that mattered. the success as a product required such "maliciousness" towards those 4 targets. not too unlike states in the USA needing to individually legalize marijuana before it would be considered at all federally. I do find the HN title truthy. I think I did read into the title what the author was intending, ie to be clickbaity what with the new licensing. where you're wrong is saying that this being 4 months old isn't relevant to the license change. he/hashicorp didn't suddenly come up with the new license 2 weeks ago and then made it happen. it's something you think about for awhile, certainly at least over 2 quarters of missed growth for your own cloud product. so what he said in public 4 months ago is very relevant.