[ohad1282]

env0 founder here, direct competition of Terraform Cloud, and core member in the OpenTF initiative. Thank you for your note. I wanted to mention that indeed env0 enjoyed Terraform being free, but also contributed back to the Terraform ecosystem, with github.com/env0/terratag OSS and TheIaCPodcast.com for education. Also important to mention another and probably a more important key member in the OpenTF initiative - Gruntwork, creators of Terragrunt and Terratest. I believe we all contributed nicely to the community. Just my 2 cents, in order to add a bit more context to "companies who make money from Terraform being free".

[robertlagrant]

Understood - but that was completely for your own gain. There's nothing wrong with that, but I don't like the mischaracterisation of HashiCorp as the baddies and this new entity as the goodies. Hashicorp just were too open and giving, and didn't have a way to profit from all the money they invested, the way you and others have profited from their investment.

[ohad1282]

I could not agree more. Hashicorp are not the baddies. They did what they chose is right for them. They have any right to do so. Also, what Hashi did for OSS in the last decade is amazing, made OSS better and built many communities. Now it is time for something/somebody else to keep Terraform OSS. env0 is proud to take a significant part in this initiative (together with our friends in other companies and the support we got from the community so far), forking Terraform into opentf and donating opentf to CNCF/LF.