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Care to explain why?
Tofu has an ancient reputation as a vegetarian replacement for meat. Its taste depends on the preparation (raw Tofu is very flexible). Some people associate it positively ('ethical', 'wholesome', 'tasty'), others do not ('not the real thing', 'tasteless').
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"OpenTofu" is cute, but tofu has nothing to do with terraforming. How about "Genesis" or "Reliant" or "Marcus" or "Kruge"?
It's a nice pun and at the same time is close to the original, which would help Terraform users recognize the brand. Your suggestions are nice, but less recognizable in that way. Maybe we can take that pun to extreme though! If they ever have a designer that can come up with some crazy lore of terraforming with tofu that would be really really awesome. But I think they have more pressing matters right now.
- Maybe do nothing, and as long as OpenTofu doesn't attempt to extend Terraform they are in not that different a position than pre-MPL.
- Add so many features OpenTofu can't keep up?
- Add some sneaky code to latest versions of hashi providers which makes them not work with unofficial terraform binaries?
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Care to explain why?
Tofu has an ancient reputation as a vegetarian replacement for meat. Its taste depends on the preparation (raw Tofu is very flexible). Some people associate it positively ('ethical', 'wholesome', 'tasty'), others do not ('not the real thing', 'tasteless').
The new branding is recognizable, cute and short. However, Tofu has a somewhat mixed reputation. I guess OpenTofu can stand on its own though.
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Cute punny name, I like it. Congrats on joining the LF, and keep up the good work!
By the way, are there any plans for taking on other HashiCorp products as well? (Packer and Nomad are of particular interest to me :-)
Open Source businesses have no future in a world where big tech can gulp your product for free.
The OpenTofu folks will probably even raise capital to support commercialization of their thing at some point.
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It's a nice pun and at the same time is close to the original, which would help Terraform users recognize the brand. Your suggestions are nice, but less recognizable in that way. Maybe we can take that pun to extreme though! If they ever have a designer that can come up with some crazy lore of terraforming with tofu that would be really really awesome. But I think they have more pressing matters right now.
I was just hoping more HN readers would get the reference... :-(
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It's a nice pun and at the same time is close to the original, which would help Terraform users recognize the brand. Your suggestions are nice, but less recognizable in that way. Maybe we can take that pun to extreme though! If they ever have a designer that can come up with some crazy lore of terraforming with tofu that would be really really awesome. But I think they have more pressing matters right now.
I was just hoping more HN readers would get the reference... :-(
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"OpenTofu" is cute, but tofu has nothing to do with terraforming. How about "Genesis" or "Reliant" or "Marcus" or "Kruge"?
terraform has nothing to do with terraforming either