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What about a fellow hner's comment above:

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jandeboevrie 23 minutes ago [-]

Too little, too late. Surpassed by Ansible (and AWX) a long time ago. Chef was nice in 2014 to get rid of puppet... """

Every person can decide for themselves what story they want to tell. Chef has been declared dead/dumb/irrelevant from the beginning. It’s doing great as a business, and as software. You play your game - y’all can think it’s irrelevant, and it’ll just keep on focusing on solving people’s problems. Turns out it works.

I'd agree with this. If they'd done this in 2012 when they were the up and coming, they might be in the lead today.

I think ultimately this wasn't 'experimenting', this was Chef thinking they'd be in the lead _without_ open sourcing. When they realized otherwise, they open sourced as a defensive measure.

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