One has to wonder how much collaboration was prevented by having Hashicorp refuse to hear their users or accept PRs. At some point, opensource or not, people just stop bothering.
It’s being forked only now because there is big money at stake.
I’m gonna wear my cynical hat and say: it never was about collaboration.
Seriously: people are falling for the collaboration meme. Isn’t anybody wondering “why now?”
Why not a year ago, why not a year in the future?