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The criticism of hashicorp seems childish. Why shouldn't they restrict the way in which companies make money from their inventions as they see fit? There's a lo

The criticism of hashicorp seems childish. Why shouldn't they restrict the way in which companies make money from their inventions as they see fit? There's a lot of thoughtless entitlement among some of the attitudes being expressed in this debate.

fishnchips 3y ago
I think at this point we exhausted arguments on both sides of the debate. I think that agreeing to disagree and moving on is a better alternative to competing on ad hominems.
- verdverm 3y ago
  It's easy to say that when it is not your work others are making money on Just "moving on" is like putting your head in the sand to avoid difficult conversations about financially sustainable open source (which requires an amount of unopen-source if we're going to be honest with ourselves). Donations and charity don't put food on the table for those building the projects. We have not figured this out as a society, so we should keep talking and debating
  - fishnchips 3y ago
    Many of these discussions seem to devolve into calling names, throwing ad hominems or even darker stuff like threats of symbolic or physical violence. Being on the receiving end of all that in relation to the fork makes me wish we can indeed move on and resume the conversation when the tempers cool down.
throwawayllaq 3y ago
This discussion ship has sailed.
- da39a3ee 3y ago
  Don't try to silence people. If you have nothing substantive to say then say nothing.
tristan957 3y ago
HashiCorp is free to make money, but to take the work on community contributors and relicense it for its own gain is the biggest scam an "open source" company can commit. HashiCorp's inability to license their software effectively is what got them into this mess. Instead of using a license like the AGPL, they left themselves open to this attack. Why would you have sympathy for a company that dug their own grave?

fishnchips 3y ago

I think at this point we exhausted arguments on both sides of the debate. I think that agreeing to disagree and moving on is a better alternative to competing on ad hominems.

verdverm 3y ago
It's easy to say that when it is not your work others are making money on Just "moving on" is like putting your head in the sand to avoid difficult conversations about financially sustainable open source (which requires an amount of unopen-source if we're going to be honest with ourselves). Donations and charity don't put food on the table for those building the projects. We have not figured this out as a society, so we should keep talking and debating
- fishnchips 3y ago
  Many of these discussions seem to devolve into calling names, throwing ad hominems or even darker stuff like threats of symbolic or physical violence. Being on the receiving end of all that in relation to the fork makes me wish we can indeed move on and resume the conversation when the tempers cool down.

throwawayllaq 3y ago

This discussion ship has sailed.

da39a3ee 3y ago
Don't try to silence people. If you have nothing substantive to say then say nothing.

tristan957 3y ago

HashiCorp is free to make money, but to take the work on community contributors and relicense it for its own gain is the biggest scam an "open source" company can commit. HashiCorp's inability to license their software effectively is what got them into this mess. Instead of using a license like the AGPL, they left themselves open to this attack. Why would you have sympathy for a company that dug their own grave?