After the recent layoffs at Google that impacted open source maintainers of some prominent projects, I was curious to see what's the state of other projects where the community had to step up involvement after the initial project ceased their Open Source contributions.
I saw a few people made similar comparisons for other forked projects in the past, and as an infra guy myself, I immediately thought about OpenTofu, now that we're more than half a year after the fork from Terraform, they recently had a massive release, and also had some interesting shenanigans with Hashicorp's lawyers accusing them of stealing their precious IP.
Adam Jacob makes a really good argument for why this makes perfect sense from the perspective of the OpenTofu Consortium members, to not want to dedicate tons of dev hours working on the OSS project. Have a listen: https://changelog.com/friends/41
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 15.6 ms ] threadI saw a few people made similar comparisons for other forked projects in the past, and as an infra guy myself, I immediately thought about OpenTofu, now that we're more than half a year after the fork from Terraform, they recently had a massive release, and also had some interesting shenanigans with Hashicorp's lawyers accusing them of stealing their precious IP.
EDIT: or read the transcript: https://changelog.com/friends/41#transcript-223