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Following IBM's acquisition of Hashicorp the moves seems unsurprising, they wouldn't want to be beholden to a competitor. We'll inevitably see others large com
by ig1 2y ago
Following IBM's acquisition of Hashicorp the moves seems unsurprising, they wouldn't want to be beholden to a competitor.
We'll inevitably see others large companies follow suite - it was one thing when hashicorp was independent tech company but it's very different when it's owned by a direct competitor.
- cies 2y agoIBM prolly got them to agree to do the re-licensing move "as Hashicorp" as part of the take over deal. So it would not look bad on IBM.
- alemanek 2y agoFrom what I have read Hashicorp did this relicensing since IBM was reselling Vault at scale in IBM cloud. They wanted to force IBM and other cloud providers to pay them instead I believe. IBM employees then initiated the fork of vault which is called openbao. Later IBM buys Hashicorp. The fork might have just been an attempt at leverage in the negotiations but it remains to be seen if it will live on.
- candiddevmike 2y agoOpenTofu hard forked, it's going to be interesting to see what happens if IBM rolls back the licensing changes.
- tw04 2y ago>they wouldn't want to be beholden to a competitor. Which is ironic given that OEL is a direct rip-off of RHEL which IBM also now owns.