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I am very disappointed that the initial response of so many people to "Hashicorp switched to BSL and it's no longer FOSS" is some variant of "but how else will they make money, if not for using the BSL?", and not "what effects will this have for everybody else, especially the community contributors?"
Like, this is corporate apologism, whether you realize it or not, and it is absolutely a habit to unlearn. Yes, also when the corporation claims it's to protect from another corporation. Propaganda is a thing that exists.
Your first response should always be "what about the people", never "what about the corporation"!
@joepie91 They have all of the access and hypothetically all of knowledge about the tools they've built. If they they're getting eaten alive by people building enhancements to their products, they shouldn't be a company.
Like if your product has so many deficiencies that people are willing to pay someone else to fix them, maybe the company is shit and should fail.
They think hcl is fine so, their judgement was already pretty questionable.