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1. The elephant in the room here is VCs that pushed unsustainable pure open source or open core business models during ZIRP. You can't do it right from day one if your investors are pushing you the opposite direction.

2. People keep talking about community contributions but hasn't Hashicorp rejected all contributions for years?

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On 2), you can define contributions narrowly as PRs in the repo, or broadly, as building providers, libraries, and documentation in the ecosystem. I think the latter perhaps makes more sense.

Contributing providers, for example, is a massive contribution of labor that Hashi would have had to do themselves if the community didn’t.

didn't think about the documentation but that's especially true...it's a massive amount of copy, between all the tutorials, how-tos, educational material, and example code, all mindfully presented in a useful way

would love to know a definitive/quantitative answer for #2, for sure. I do think it makes a difference when it comes to the "backstabbing" implications of the change

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