The product would have been worse without the contributions. More expensive for Hashicorp to maintain. And if it wouldn't have been free, their value propositio

The product would have been worse without the contributions. More expensive for Hashicorp to maintain. And if it wouldn't have been free, their value proposition would have been very different. People would've used alternatives, for many of them that'd have meant something homegrown. Terraform would not have been so successful, Hashicorp wouldn't have been as big a company as it now is, as a result. The model as it was was a win-win for everybody. But sure, freeloader competitors may be a fair concern of Hashicorp, thank goodness they solved that problem, didn't they? But at what expense, they are disturbing an equilibrium that was established between themselves and their users.