IBM's HashiCorp acquisition harkens back to the era when the company's stance shifted away from its previous model of largely proprietary offerings and services to open source.

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IBM's pending acquisition of HashiCorp raises questions about a potential shift back to a more liberal open source model for Terraform. The fate of HashiCorp's Terraform license under IBM's ownership remains uncertain.

With IBM’s Open Source Roots, Terraform Could Be Free Again