> companies would not mind paying a small amount to help support the OSS projects they depend on

meanwhile I've been trying to find a way to give Hashicorp some money for over a decade of depending on their tools, but their products simply are too good to need the enterprise versions!

At some point we need something like a "certified B corporation" for "certified ethical fair-trade Free Software using corporation" where an independant body audits and makes sure you're donating to a sufficient % of the open source projects used in your production SaaS

You can open https://www.hashicorp.com/en/pricing and contact their sales department!

Also, wasn't there an uproar when Terraform turned slightly less free? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37081306

Yes! There are many Open Source projects my company depends on (like Astro, Vue, and Vite for our web sites) that I would love to pay a Maintenance Fee to encourage the maintainers to keep on keeping on. For all Open Source projects that we depend on and accept sponsors, we do pay the $10 "fee" even if they don't require it.

I mean enterprise vault has some really important features that open source doesnt. That could be a good direction to throw money at.