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Kind of a crazy read given the change to a non-open source license and the OpenTF fork. Really feels downplayed.



Is it possible this is not recent and just didn't age well? I don't see a date of creation or update on it so it's hard to tell.


No, it's new, although was completed a couple of days before their announcement and updated to reference it. My audience is primarily community managers, DevRel, and community-minded rev teams and HashiCorp have done an exemplary job at community-led until the licensing change. There's a lot such folks can learn from before the licensing change, I didn't want to wipe that away. Also, I didn't see it as my place to provide too much commentary on it specifically, since the impact isn't yet fully understood.


>HashiCorp have done an exemplary job at community-led until the licensing change

Have they? Obviously, part of this should be taking care of yourself, and HashiCorp wasn't exactly profitable. It could be argued they didn't monetize the right things, and that led to a bad desperation move.


If you read article it outlines why I think so. Profitability is a larger issue than their community programs. Although, the process of converting community into customers is still slow for them, which I think is a contributing factor for sure.


This was just published 2 hours ago according to the RSS feed.


The web archive only has crawls of this from today, so it might be new.




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