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From Mitchell Hashimoto, the founder of HashiCorp: https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/1266390186054651905
Whoa, wait, the founder's last name is Hashimoto? That's awesome. I always just assumed it was a portmanteau related to hash functions.
Hashi to my ears sounds distinctively Japanese (I understand it either means "bridge" or "chopsticks").
Hello, I'm a founder of HashiCorp and I'd like to explain this. First, this document only applies to enterprise evaluation software. This doesn't apply to our OSS software and this shouldn't be linked anywhere near our OSS except in the context of signing up for an enterprise eval. Most importantly: why is this here? This is NOT a political statement. This is a legal requirement. The encryption we use in Vault is sub…
Why exactly they do that?
Good question. It's not like IP protection is practical in China--this software WILL be used in China against license. It's also basically impossible to hold Chinese companies (often entangled with the communist government of China) accountable for things like fraud or IP theft. Maybe it's just a political statement.
Weird that there is no official announcement from HashiCorp to explain this decision.
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Good question. It's not like IP protection is practical in China--this software WILL be used in China against license. It's also basically impossible to hold Chinese companies (often entangled with the communist government of China) accountable for things like fraud or IP theft. Maybe it's just a political statement.
None of this is true. It's not political, it's not about IP, it's about Chinese law, and it doesn't apply to OSS. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23351181
Hello, I'm a founder of HashiCorp and I'd like to explain this. First, this document only applies to enterprise evaluation software. This doesn't apply to our OSS software and this shouldn't be linked anywhere near our OSS except in the context of signing up for an enterprise eval. Most importantly: why is this here? This is NOT a political statement. This is a legal requirement. The encryption we use in Vault is sub…
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It's interesting to me that it's Chinese export control laws that affect you. Normally when you hear about this kind of thing, it's the US export restrictions causing the issue. Does that not apply in this case? And wouldn't you be importing into China? (IANAL, genuinely asking)
It's not export controls in the case of China afaik. It's literally 'the party would like to read your data in the name of social harmony'
Hello, I'm a founder of HashiCorp and I'd like to explain this. First, this document only applies to enterprise evaluation software. This doesn't apply to our OSS software and this shouldn't be linked anywhere near our OSS except in the context of signing up for an enterprise eval. Most importantly: why is this here? This is NOT a political statement. This is a legal requirement. The encryption we use in Vault is sub…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's interesting to me that it's Chinese export control laws that affect you. Normally when you hear about this kind of thing, it's the US export restrictions causing the issue. Does that not apply in this case? And wouldn't you be importing into China? (IANAL, genuinely asking)
It's not export controls in the case of China afaik. It's literally 'the party would like to read your data in the name of social harmony'