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I was wondering, once IBM got Hashicorp, if they would reverse the license change for Terraform. Not been that long since the announcement, so still hoping they
by EspadaV9 2y ago
I was wondering, once IBM got Hashicorp, if they would reverse the license change for Terraform. Not been that long since the announcement, so still hoping they will.
- pquki4 2y agoHas there ever been notable instances of company regretting and reversing license change of a major project?
- webwielder2 2y agoUnity!
- baobun 2y agoLerna, if that's major enough for you.
- toast0 2y agoOracle ended OpenSolaris although forks continue. Nokia and friends ended OpenSymbian, no forks afaik.
- pxc 2y agoWe're talking about an acquisition, not the original company making the reversal. Red Hat used to routinely open-source acquisitions. Sun also did— that's how we got OpenOffice (and by way of it, LibreOffice). StarOffice was proprietary when Sun bought it.
- cies 2y agoI believe Hashicorp's move wrt the license of TF was in order to close the IBM takeover deal.
- glenngillen 2y agoYou keep posting this completely unsubstantiated theory. Way back when the license changed the threads on HN had HashiCorp employees claiming the change was primarily to protect HashiCorp from the fact IBM was reselling Vault. IBM then went ahead and helped fork Vault (OpenBao).
- skywhopper 2y agoDefinitely not the case. HC leadership was totally desperate for any way to increase revenue and/or stock price. See also the announcement in a recent quarterly report that they were going to start doing share buybacks even though they are still operating at a loss.
- skywhopper 2y agoIf they do it likely won’t be until after the deal closes.