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Thanks! That makes a lot of sense.

My original point wasn't really about the inbound/outbound distinction. It was that these companies can claim they're based on open source, but then N years down the line pull the rug out from underneath us all and re-license their code to be not open source, as HashiCorp recently did. I think this is qualitatively different from e.g. the Linux kernel where we are guaranteed it will be open source in perpetuity.



"perpetuity" is a weird word, a company can go out of business or discontinue a product entirely. Re-licensing is strictly better than those options.




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