I sure wonder what they expected to happen when they changed the license. They were aiming to destroy the businesses of competing services that had grown up around their open source project. Were they imagining that the people running those companies would just sadly close up shop and the customers would eagerly jump to HashiCorp's bosom?

The reality was that those companies exist because there's a gap in their offerings and plenty of demand for alternatives. Once that dynamic exists it's going to try to protect itself too.

My point is this was all so far predictable. I would love to know what they thought would happen instead.