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by iksn 516 days ago
Naming Spacelift, Env0, Scalr etc as suppprters without mentioning they had no other choice than to move away from Terraform feels like its missing some context. I would assume they could've licensed it from HashiCorp but for a huge sum.
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> I would assume they could've licensed it from HashiCorp but for a huge sum.

Maybe. Maybe not. Maybe hashicorp would have agreed to sell a license to them with terms that allowed their usage of terraform in their products. But it is also quite likely that they would have refused to grant such a license to their competitors.

It's also not a great idea to place one's future at the whim of a competitor. Maybe they get a good license deal today and next year it's 100x. No sane business would do this.