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		Hrun0 on Aug 11, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: HashiCorp adopts Business Source License It is surprising to see so many people here being shocked that a publicly traded company operates its projects for profit rather than altruism.

sneak on Aug 11, 2023 [–]

It's the hypocrisy of pretending to be open source (which is an ideology) and while shipping nonfree software.

Microsoft does it too but they don't pretend to care about software freedoms.

Hrun0 on Aug 11, 2023 | [–]

Why would you believe a company's supposed ideology in the first place?

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