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> Or stop developing Terraform, cut expenditures, and move on with life.

How would that be an improvement to anyone in any way? If you want, you can just pretend that Terraform is dead and Hashicorp will never push another commit for it. The people who can make the compromises BSL has can continue to use it.

> If the viability of your business is predicated on being the only one able to provide your project as a service and earn that service revenue gravy, just leave it closed source and proprietary. Sure, you won't get adoption at anywhere near the rate, but that's the tradeoff you make.

I don’t understand why this is a binary. If the conditions of the BSL are unacceptable to YOU that’s fine, just pretend it’s closed source if you wish. For others, that the BSL isn’t completely proprietary is useful for them - let it be useful. Your wishes need not dictate everyone else’s.