256: Begun, The Custom Silicon Wars Have

256: Begun, The Custom Silicon Wars Have

Author: Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas and Matt Kohn | Cloud Computing & AI News April 24, 2024 Duration: 40:59

Welcome to episode 256 of the Cloud Pod podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! This week your hosts, Justin and Matthew are here this week to catch you up on all the news you may have missed while Google Next was going on. We’ve got all the latest news on the custom silicon hot war that’s developing, some secret sync, drama between HashiCorp and OpenTofu, and one more Google Next recap – plus much more in today’s episode. Welcome to the Cloud! 

Titles we almost went with this week:

  • I have a Google Next sized hangover
  • Claude’s Magnificent Opus now on AWS
  • US-EAST-1 Gets called Reliable; how insulting
  • The cloud pod flies on a g6 

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General News 

Today, we get caught up on the other Clouds from last week, and other news (besides Google, that is.) Buckle up. 

04:11 OpenTofu Project Denies HashiCorp’s Allegations of Code Theft 

  • After our news cutoff before Google Next, Hashicorp issued a strongly worded Cease and Desist letter to the OpenTofu project, accusing that the project has “repeatedly taken code Hashi provided under the BSL and used it in a manner that violates those license terms and Hashi’s intellectual properties.”
  • It notes that in some instances, OpenTofu has incorrectly re-labeled Hashicorp’s code to make it appear as if it was made available by Hashi, originally under a different license. 
  • Hashi gave them until April 10th to remove any allegedly copied code from the OpenTofu repo, threatening litigation if the project failed to do so. 
  • OpenTofu struck back – and they came with receipts! 
  • They deny that any BSL licensed code was incorporated into the OpenTofu repo, and that any code they copied came from the MPL-Licensed version of terraform.
  • “The OpenTofu team vehemently disagrees with any suggestions that it misappropriated, mis-sourced or misused Hashi’s BSL code. All such statements have zero basis in facts” — Open Tofu Team
  • OpenTofu showed how the code they accused was lifted from the BSL code, was actually in the MPL version, and then copied into the BSL version from an older version by a Hashi Engineer. 
  • Anticipating third party contributions might submit BSL terraform code unwittingly or otherwise, OpenTofu instituted a “taint team” to compare Terraform and Open Tofu Pull requests.
  • If the PR is found to be in breach of intellectual property rights, the pull request is closed and the contributor is closed from working on that area of the code in the future. 
  • Matt Asay, (from Mongo) writing for Infoworld, dropped a hit piece when the C&D was filed, but then

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