[mdaniel]

I had a distaste for Nomad before the rug pull[1], but hopefully no serious person would voluntarily choose Nomad after that stunt. Doubly so that going with the Nomad ecosystem mandates self-hosting as one cannot $(aws elastic-nomad create-cluster). I was similarly surprised that HashiCorp didn't even offer "you pay for compute but we will administer your control plane" since both the "community" and the "enterprise" links from the front page both say "self-managed"

I will be super curious to see if IBM Cloud actually does ship $(ibm-cloud-cli create-nomad)

1: I also didn't realize they rug pulled Consul, too; that's just cruel https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/blob/v1.20.5/LICENSE

[sofixa]

Agree to disagree on if a license change (to one that impacts nobody but potential resellers) constitutes a rug pull.

BSL and similar are the second best thing (after open source licenses), and still drastically better than proprietary/closed source. If it allows someone to pay the salaries of the people developing it, I'm fine with that. And not only because my own salary is one of them - I had the same view for MongoDB, Elastic, Sourcegraph, etc. In the era where massive behemoths can just ship your software as a service for free, companies need to protect themselves as much as they can. Do you ever wonder why there are very few profitable open source companies? Most people would know Red Hat and that's it.