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Comment by mdaniel

16 days ago

uh-huh: https://github.com/earthly/earthly/blob/v0.8.15/LICENSE (MPLv2, just like TF used to be) https://github.com/dagger/dagger/blob/v0.15.2/LICENSE (Apache 2)

Ha you got me there. Well in that case: cursed be the devops guys and their devilish inertia & groupthink.

IIRC they went fully open source because they couldn't make it as a for profit company.

  • Selling dev tools is ferociously hard, as partially evidenced by this thread talking about how changing anyone's development flow/tooling/process is also ferociously hard

    I would guess dev tooling usually also falls into the "nice to have," or as my former CEO used to say "vitamins vs painkillers"