And mint it did, billions, in the IPO. And now, abandoning its ideals for the sake of money, I feel a lot less optimistic about open source going forward.
Also makes me question OSS promise when w/e I build will be captured by CloudProvider or cheaper alternative.
Why I would build anything OSS if my time will never pay off ?
Having followed Mitchell Hashimoto’s work on Vagrant, I felt like he and Armon were truly value driven and not purely money oriented.
But it’s true, dollars corrupt and billions of dollars corrupt absolutely.
[0] https://ir.hashicorp.com/news-releases/news-release-details/...
And Hashicorp’s founders sacrificed ideals for the sake of billions.
Money is just necessary. It doesn't matter if other things are more important on some theoretical hierarchy. If you need a necessary thing then that's all that matters.