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> Is there any one individual or group responsible for HashiCorps switch to BSL?

IBM, would you choose to trust statements[1] posted from a throwaway account

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38579504

Clicking "parent" on this post a couple times yields some more context. Seems like the claim the throwaway account is making is that IBM pulling Vault into their IBM Cloud offering was the catalyst for relicensing everything. Terraform and other Hashi projects just got caught up in a blanket policy change.

Had not heard the IBM angle before and spent a few minutes digging.

This is totally non-credible. Their enterprise pricing was crazy for value and the feature-set slim. I personally was on a number of teams that refused to pay it and went with another player in the TACOS (Terraform Automation and COllaboration Software) family.

The TACOS provided way more features at a sane price point. They were out-competed by their own cottage industry and the BSL was their weapon to solve it. Surprise, surprise it backfired.

I respect Mitchell for the competent programmer he is but as a founder, he should have stepped in and done something to right the ship before it got this bad.

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