The actual fuck if IBM acquires Hashicorp is that so much of Hashicorp's value as a maker of development tooling is tied up in free contributions. Some of those are from large organizations who made a considered decision to support Hashicorp (eg. Amazon, who write their own providers for Packer and Terraform), but _many_ are from individual devs or small shops who are just trying to get their own jobs done.
None of those people will see any compensation for the value they added to this deal.
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