[fallat]

It's understandable the issue brought up, but the history of the company we are talking about (and not just generalize!) must be considered.

Is HashiCorp known to do this?

All I've heard are good things about HashiCorp from people who use HashiCorp products.

Second, it can't be forgotten these are companies. A company exists to create value for itself in some way.

It's the natural behavior of any company.

However in my opinion, "open core" design seems to be very very preferable amongst technologists (myself included). Essentially we are paying for additional features which normally we'd wait years from a sole contributor.

[wmf]

Some people felt burned by Vault where it looked like the free version could be used in production but it couldn't and then the enterprise version is very expensive.

[gen220]

> it looks like the free version can be used in production

I think you might be confusing vault with another product?

We self-host vault in production, and it doesn't cost us a dime.

(other than the engineers we pay internally to operate it, of course)

[atonse]

Err what? Vault can absolutely be used in production for free. If you want the enterprise features, then you pay.

[Diederich]

Why can't the free version of Vault be used in production?

[modderation]

Production-worthiness depends on your needs. The free edition is perfectly good for most people, however there are several features and modules that are only available in the Enterprise Edition. Notably, some of the disaster recovery, scaleout, and multifactor authentication features cost extra.

ref: https://www.hashicorp.com/products/vault/pricing

[wmf]

I think the problem was that auto-unseal wasn't free (it is now, so kudos to HashiCorp for listening).

[eeZah7Ux]

> Is HashiCorp known to do this?

HashiCorp and other companies doing "devops" tools are known for using "open core" and hijacking the spirit of open source in many ways.