On: Unity’s new pricing: A wake-up call on the importa...

[ahoka]

“There's no way for an open source project to change their terms that drastically.”

Like going from GPLv2 to GPLv3 or straight to AGPL, so now you are stuck with an old version forever? Yeah, that would never happen!

[Takennickname → ahoka]

You're not stuck with an old version forever, that's very hyperbolic and you purposefully ignored OP's example of Hashicorp and Terraform and instead responded with sarcasm.

[josephcsible → ahoka]

Contrast "you are stuck with an old version forever" with "you can't use the program at all anymore, not even old versions of it".

[pxc → ahoka]

That's only a problem for you if you yourself have a business model that depends on curtailing the freedom of your users. Playing the victim when a license prevents you from victimizing your own customers and users in the way that has happened in this incident is pretty rich.