HashiCorp recently changed Terraform from an open source model to something that requires licensing, so folks got together, forked the code, and created OpenTF.
I’m glad they are doing this but in all likelihood most people who use terraform are not offering terraform to third parties on a hosted or embedded basis which is competitive with HashiCorp's products and can continue to make production use of it.
But like I said, I am glad it’s happening - as an insurance policy.
That misses the point, imo. Much of Hashi’s ecosystem was created by people who contributed to the product believing it was community owned, as that’s what the license said.
Oracle tried to do similar when they closed the source for Hudson. Hudson was forked, creating Jenkins, and I would be surprised if folks even remember Hudson today.
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I’m glad they are doing this but in all likelihood most people who use terraform are not offering terraform
to third parties on a hosted or embedded basis which is competitive with HashiCorp's productsand can continue to make production use of it.But like I said, I am glad it’s happening - as an insurance policy.
That misses the point, imo. Much of Hashi’s ecosystem was created by people who contributed to the product believing it was community owned, as that’s what the license said.
Oracle tried to do similar when they closed the source for Hudson. Hudson was forked, creating Jenkins, and I would be surprised if folks even remember Hudson today.
Oxide Computing gets into the details on their podcast: https://youtu.be/QaU94LY891M