What a traditional cooking oil taught me about how institutions think about risk, familiarity, and trust, and why the same flawed logic shapes enterprise attitudes toward open source software.
There is a particular kind of disappointment that comes not from failure, but from betrayal. Not the dramatic kind. The quiet kind. The kind where something you trusted, something you built around, something you advocated for, simply changes the rules. That is what the Terraform licensing shift felt like. Not a catastrophe. Not an emergency. Just a slow, uncomfortable realization that the ground had moved beneath our feet. The Relationship We Had Terraform was not just a tool. It was an idea. ...