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> companies would not mind paying a small amount to help support the OSS projects they depend on meanwhile I've been trying to find a way to give Hashicorp som
by mikestorrent 1y ago
> companies would not mind paying a small amount to help support the OSS projects they depend on
meanwhile I've been trying to find a way to give Hashicorp some money for over a decade of depending on their tools, but their products simply are too good to need the enterprise versions!
At some point we need something like a "certified B corporation" for "certified ethical fair-trade Free Software using corporation" where an independant body audits and makes sure you're donating to a sufficient % of the open source projects used in your production SaaS
- nine_k 1y agoYou can open https://www.hashicorp.com/en/pricing https://www.hashicorp.com/en/pricing and contact their sales department! Also, wasn't there an uproar when Terraform turned slightly less free? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37081306 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37081306
- mikestorrent 1y agoOh, I've been through the sales process. The trouble is that everything I've ever NEEDED has been free, and everything I might concievably want is locked behind a fairly high price threshold that I can never justify. They need some way for folks like me to get our companies to pay like $5k a year ARR for something that makes it more useful without going the full enterprise route.
- acedTrex 1y agoI mean enterprise vault has some really important features that open source doesnt. That could be a good direction to throw money at.
- robmensching 1y agoYes! There are many Open Source projects my company depends on (like Astro, Vue, and Vite for our web sites) that I would love to pay a Maintenance Fee to encourage the maintainers to keep on keeping on. For all Open Source projects that we depend on and accept sponsors, we do pay the $10 "fee" even if they don't require it.