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And that’s great for the developer ecosystem. HashiCorp wants to lock you in to Terraform Cloud and start jacking up the price because they EULAed away competition.

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You don’t have to use terraform cloud to use terraform.

No, but they want to use the new license to stop competitors from making better alternatives to Terraform Cloud.

If you don’t want to build your own Terraform CI solution you’ll be forced to buy it from HashiCorp.

Too late to edit my first reply to you, but I wanted to add that this situation would be like if Facebook said you can’t use React to make a social media website.

React wouldn’t have the adoption it would today if Meta were to have done something so untrustworthy. So many organizations would have avoided it entirely because they would have seen that as untrustworthiness and a business risk.

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