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0 pointsExuma2y ago0 comments

Out of curiosity what is your definition of a freeloader? Is someone who’s been coding but hasn’t made a single OSS commit a freeloader ?

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eppp2y ago

I would imagine that its someone who builds a profitable offering on the back of OSS and doesn't give back anything.

tensor2y ago

So every person who uses Linux for work and doesn't make a kernel contribution is a freeloader? A plant shop keeper running Linux on their work computer is a freeloader? I don't think that's even the intent of the GNU movement let alone all of open source.

hashtag-til2y ago

Yes, exactly.

wmf2y ago

It sounds like there are companies selling Terraform with a wrapper on top and not paying Hashicorp anything.

yellowapple2y ago

I know of precisely zero such companies, and I can't imagine how such a company would even have customers in the first place when Terraform already has a $0 pricetag.

I could maybe understand this for Consul or Vault, since those are actual hostable services that could probably be resold - but I don't know of anyone reselling those, either.

lijok2y ago

Pulumi, scalr, env0, spacelift, digger, controlmonkey, terrateam, terrakube

Dozens of them out there I wonder with great interest which one of these got hashicorp worries about their wallet enough to make this move. Could it be env0 raising 42M earlier this year?

chunk_waffle2y ago

Maybe Gruntwork.io, makers of Terragrunt, I think?

I always just stuck to vanilla Terraform but recall coming across them at some point.

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