Worse, Spacelift, evn0, and Scalr made it clear they are not companies to partner with.

A SaaS used for infrastructure is a critical partner, not just a vendor! With all their statements, they all made it clear they don't care about their customers.

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Negotiate a license with HashiCorp so customers can keep their businesses running?
Spacelift: PAAAAASSSS. LAME!

Spend at least a few million dollars a year building and maintaining a fork of Terraform and force customers to use this shitty alternative?
Spacelift: YAAAS!

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'Instead of paying HashiCorp licensing fees, Spacelift will spend $1m/year on OpenTF and fuck over all customers by forcing them to adopt OpenTF' is... something.

I certainly hope Spacelift has a different stance in private conversations with their customers.

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As an aside, dear Spacelift: y'all do realize that you're basically telling HashiCorp 'it would be more cost efficient for us to pay any licensing fee that's smaller than the cost of 5 full-time engineers ($1mm/yr at the lowest range)', right?

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If I was HashiCorp I'd be evil and literally charge Spacelift $(5FTE - 1$) as a licensing fee. Thank the heavens I am just a dum-dum on the internet!

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Getting back to the point, with the latest announcement OpenTF continues to prove they are not serious.

They don't understand Terraform, they don't understand how Terraform is built, they don't understand the wider ecosystem, and they don't even understand open-source.

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Why would I use OpenTF over Terraform?

There are no reasons to do so! Not today and not tomorrow.

OpenTF can put out all the hopeful and excited statements they want, but they again and again proved they have no idea what they're doing so why would you use OpenTF?

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What should you do?

Keep using Terraform and ignore this bullshit. Re-visit the situation in 3 months and see if you need to change anything. Maybe, by some miracle, OpenTF will get serious and actually build something. Highly un-fucking-likely.

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I have a feeling both Terraform and HashiCorp will end up being better, both as a company and as a product.

Just like MongoDB: they had their licensing drama but they're now both a more comprehensive database and a better company 💟

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HashiCorp may fuck it up, but they're on the right path.

OpenTF might've been an alternative path but they have, time and time again, proved that they cannot be taken seriously.

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