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Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp

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Re: Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp

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Post by pid-1 »

mitchellh wrote: post #15

We've gone full circle! I originally launched Vagrant here on HN in 2010, which was at the top of HN very briefly for the day. Now here I am 14 years later witnessing my departure post in that very same spot. A strange experience! Thanks for the support over the years. A lot of the initial community for the projects I helped start came from here.

Good luck! Consul, Terraform and Nomad were pivotal for my carrier. Went from a server unboxer to a container wizard during the last decade. Thanks a lot!

Re: Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp

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Post by ksec »

antupis wrote: post #139
ksec wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just the Link. It all started here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1175901 Vagrant: A tool for building and distributing virtual development environments (vagrantup.com) 129 points by mitchellh on March 8, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 28 comments I still remember reading that post on HN. And subsequently Vagrant took off. Cant believe it is nearly 14 years! Thank You Mitchell for everything as I am (still) u…

Is there somewhere a list of these big stuff that launched in the HN, eg this and Dropbox https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 .

Another big one on top of my head is Coinbase

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3754664

Re: Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp

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Post by berniedurfee »

mitchellh wrote: post #15

We've gone full circle! I originally launched Vagrant here on HN in 2010, which was at the top of HN very briefly for the day. Now here I am 14 years later witnessing my departure post in that very same spot. A strange experience! Thanks for the support over the years. A lot of the initial community for the projects I helped start came from here.

Congratulations Mitchell! You’ve inspired and influenced the careers of many, many developers, including me.

I always look to HashiCorp first when searching for tooling. Always something interesting coming out of that shop.

Re: Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp

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Post by emptysongglass »

voytec wrote: post #18
password4321 wrote: post #3

Is there any one individual or group responsible for HashiCorp's switch to BSL? From what I saw Mitchell let go of running the company and now that HashiCorp is not so cool anymore it's time to get out.

> Is there any one individual or group responsible for HashiCorps switch to BSL? IBM, would you choose to trust statements[1] posted from a throwaway account [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38579504

This is totally non-credible. Their enterprise pricing was crazy for value and the feature-set slim. I personally was on a number of teams that refused to pay it and went with another player in the TACOS (Terraform Automation and COllaboration Software) family.

The TACOS provided way more features at a sane price point. They were out-competed by their own cottage industry and the BSL was their weapon to solve it. Surprise, surprise it backfired.

I respect Mitchell for the competent programmer he is but as a founder, he should have stepped in and done something to right the ship before it got this bad.

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Post by DLarsen »

I remember near the start of HashiCorp, Mitchell and I spoke about buying one of his side projects. In seeking to rustle up some funds, friends asked me why anyone would offload a profitable project at such a price. Mitchell essentially explained that he was moving on to focus on bigger and better things. Boy was he right.

Someone else beat me to the punch on buying the website, but Mitchell’s clarity of purpose was profound.

Re: Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp

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Post by sverhagen »

prmoustache wrote: post #124

I can't help to read Mitchell's post as a "I am jumping of the boat before it sinks!"

Would've found it really cool, had he somehow acknowledged the current upheaval. That said, I'm buying into the story that this was the plan all along. The breadcrumbs were there, from well before the licensing trouble.

Re: Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp

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Post by pantulis »

jcims wrote: post #151
tupilaq wrote: post #148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I once (March 2014) emailed hashicorp to retrieve a lost vagrant licence key. I got a direct reply from you Mitchell with instructions on what to do. Blew my tiny mind, those were rare bygone days in our industry. Thank you for all you've created.

In 1992 I replied to an email from Steve Jobs that was shipped in the default email client of the NeXT workstation I was using. I checked the 'read receipt' box in the client. He replied, ignoring my question and berating me for violating his privacy by using the read receipt feature.

> He replied, ignoring my question and berating me for violating his privacy by using the read receipt feature.

Sounds totally legit!

Re: Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp

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Post by pantulis »

faeyanpiraat wrote: post #149
beoberha wrote: post #67

Vagrant is such an awesome tool. It’s been about a decade since I’ve used it in any capacity, but remember being wowed in my first internship when I could just spin up a VM like nothing. Best of luck, Mitchell!

What are you using instead of Vagrant for the same use case?

Aren't kids using Docker for that stuff these days?
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