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Re:HashiCorp Adopts Business Source License by ris on Thursday August 10, 2023 @06:59PM (#37082795)
> not contributing back

Have you ever looked at the number of unreviewed PRs on Hashicorp projects?

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Re:HashiCorp Adopts Business Source License by comprev on Thursday August 10, 2023 @07:09PM (#37082899)
Reviewing those PRs require engineer time from a HashiCorp employee - how many resources should be diverted to it?
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Re:HashiCorp Adopts Business Source License by ris on Thursday August 10, 2023 @07:14PM (#37082944)
> Reviewing those PRs require engineer time from a HashiCorp employee

No it doesn't. There's nothing stopping them delegating that task to community members apart from the desire to retain corporate control.

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Re:HashiCorp Adopts Business Source License by comprev on Thursday August 10, 2023 @07:22PM (#37083017)
Corporate control has most likely been their game plan from day zero.
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Re:HashiCorp Adopts Business Source License by jen20 on Thursday August 10, 2023 @07:51PM (#37083266)
It need not be HashiCorp employees. I merged as many (if not more) PRs into Terraform after leaving as I did while working there - the notion of community maintainers was nixed in 2018, though that was never communicated.
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Re:HashiCorp Adopts Business Source License by Aeolun on Thursday August 10, 2023 @08:58PM (#37083819)
They actively decided against free labor? Wow.
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Re:HashiCorp Adopts Business Source License by comprev on Friday August 11, 2023 @09:10AM (#37088283)
Control over the product direction is more important than free labour
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