And anotha one: https://www.accel.com/noteworthy/our-seed-investment-in-voidzero-evan-yous-bold-vision-for-javascript-tooling

Does anybody understand what the expected monetization model is for these tooling companies yet?

There is one sentence at the end that talks about enterprise scale/security My guesses are something like: • Support contracts • Cloud/SASS (something related to build, auditing, security) • A license that allows typical OSS and low-cost projects, but those larger companies that promise to build and deploy your code might pay Then, a handful of the companies that invested, they probably "just" (kinda like a donation with potential downstream money) want to use the results - as at their size/scale, build time might actually equate to real money

Yeah that would be nice, I hope they structure the ownership of the IP right, like Pants did with the OSS parts being in a foundation rather than in the for-profit company

Terraform, Redis, a handful of others I can never remember 😄

Terraform was a real shame, because I really like HashiCorp, and I thought their model was really good

I don't know if it's the same for terraform, but the license change isn't the only reason I'm increasingly irritated with HashiCorp. HashiCorp is really anti-community, at least when it comes to vault-related repos. Good luck getting any significant feature into Vault or any of the vault-related repos.

I would like to think that devs are fleecing VCs to make cool stuff, and I think there is some truth to that. But the money side of the software world is full of creeps that will find a way to squeeze dollars out of something by whatever means (or things will just fail).