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“HashiCorp’s technology was critical to the modern cloud” I would challenge that. Their tech gained a stronghold because it had a liberal OSS license and thus
by jarym 3y ago
“HashiCorp’s technology was critical to the modern cloud”
I would challenge that. Their tech gained a stronghold because it had a liberal OSS license and thus a community formed around it.
Their technology itself isn’t critical, it was just popular to such a degree that it was almost standard in a lot of settings.
Now they’ve upset that community we see they’re not as critical as they think they are - OpenTofu exists and people are shunning Vault and the rest of their offerings.
If I was starting a software business today I simply wouldn’t open source on day one. I might lose some of the crowd that only uses OSS but I’d just have to focus on others for a while.
- vetinari 3y ago> If I was starting a software business today I simply wouldn’t open source on day one. I might lose some of the crowd that only uses OSS but I’d just have to focus on others for a while. Or you could use GPL3 (for client-side) or AGPL (if it could be hosted). OSS crowd will be still happy and "leechers" are prevented.
- jarym 3y agoI worked in way too many places that wouldn’t let me use AGPL and it was then harder to procure vs something totally closed source. Don’t ask me how or why but then I went to work at a vendor and encountered similar experiences
- vetinari 3y agoIt usually comes with an option: those that don't like AGPL can still get a non-AGPL licensed version for a fee. You would be still better off than with totally closed source.
- paxys 3y agoThe fact that a community-run fork is causing them to sweat so much shows that HashiCorp themselves may not be as essential to the Terraform ecosystem as they thought.