They absolutely were at one point, this is why the BSL move was so upsetting, not because it necessarily stopped people from using it (unless they of course were offering competing services), but because it signaled that the phase of HashiCorp being a cool and respectful company are over.
It's almost a capitalist gut punch. Chasing that dollar, companies will squeeze every last drop of altruism out of a company.
It makes me think that the gov. should provide incentives to keep open source software backed by corporations going by figuring out how to offer a tax break on all of the "lost revenue"... We just need a good way of figuring out what the lost revenue is.
It's almost a capitalist gut punch. Chasing that dollar, companies will squeeze every last drop of altruism out of a company.
It makes me think that the gov. should provide incentives to keep open source software backed by corporations going by figuring out how to offer a tax break on all of the "lost revenue"... We just need a good way of figuring out what the lost revenue is.
:thinking: