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by echelon 1039 days ago
Not only that, but this company is profiting off of HashiCorp's work and is complaining that they can no longer do so.

The worst part is the gentle giants such as Amazon can completely abuse HashiCorp's open source license and pull all the customers to AWS internal products, leaving HashiCorp out in the cold.

HashiCorp is doing the correct thing here.

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If a company of hundreds of individual can't outclass a few teams building an entirely different product, they should reevaluate their business strategy. The OSL isn't the problem, it's that the cloud offering doesn't provide enough utility.