Hey Nikolay, thanks for sharing your experience with Scalr. When did you last evaluate the provider? afaik it covers everything, but perhaps we missed something?
There are a few realistic paths forward from here, to be confirmed when Hashi releases the full license they intend to use.
1. The Terraform community is large and talented, and we care intensely about open source. There will be a fork that remains open, and I'm hoping we can get all the commercial vendors and interested parties to be joint custodians of it. Like joeduffy says, their arguments are disingenuous, and their taking down of previous videos on their open source philosophy is too.
2. There is likely a Bring-Your-Own Terraform path, letting users supply their own Terraform for executing their code, and a commercial ecosystem that dispatches code and processes response with their own secret sauce. Just like you'd do with GitHub Actions.
3. Meanwhile, Terraform up to 1.5.5 is still open source, it's still amazing, and can still be used with the dozens of commercial tools out there.
I didn't have too much trouble getting to the second or third dates, and you are correct in that the goal of the least bad profile pic was to get myself in a position to have my humor work for me ("personality shine through").
Perhaps the most controversial part of the process was treating dating like a hiring process, kind of like picking a co-founder.