I had Hashicorp in my mind as a cool and respectful company. These recent events have made to reconsider and throw them into the same bag as Oracle. I find this pretty sad.
I suspect he doesn’t feel great about what’s happening with the company…
https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/mitchell-s-new-role-at-hashic...
I would have expected him to put in place mechanisms making the license change impossible, if he got that well what an open source company should be.
It's almost a capitalist gut punch. Chasing that dollar, companies will squeeze every last drop of altruism out of a company.
It makes me think that the gov. should provide incentives to keep open source software backed by corporations going by figuring out how to offer a tax break on all of the "lost revenue"... We just need a good way of figuring out what the lost revenue is.
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