[veverkap]

While you're not wrong, I think this undersells a little how much Mitchell has given of his time to OSS. Yes, he's fortunate that he doesn't have to worry about money, but even when he did, he still contributed openly and freely.

That's part of what drew lots of us to HashiCorp in the first place - giving back.

[mindcrash]

It's a little tongue-in-cheek, but as you can see elsewhere in this discussion thread he mentions this himself on his own X account:

"get asked the same about terminals all the time. “How will you turn this into a business? What’s the monetization strategy?” The monetization strategy is that my bank account has 3 commas mate."

https://x.com/mitchellh/status/1964785527741427940

Take a good guess where the three commas come from.

[Geezus_42]

Tres Commas!

[cholantesh]

I didn't think it was possible for anyone to express this thought more obnoxiously than DHH but here we are.

[charcircuit]

>The monetization strategy is that my bank account has 3 commas mate."

Having money doesn't mean that you'll have the motivation to continue working on something for free forever.

[bdcravens]

Money begets the freedom to work on causes. Monetization was always a core part of Hashicorp, rather than being a bolt-on after years of OSS. Which is a good thing. (I was a customer of the first commercial offering from Hashicorp, their VMWare add-on for Vagrant)

[notpushkin]

But when you already have money, you can skip the “how can I work on this and not starve to death?” part.