Re:Free Wolfram Engine for Developers
by bdowling on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @01:47PM
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An Affero GPL (AGPL) license wouldn’t prevent AWS or Azure from competing with Wolfram’s cloud service, it would just require that they publish their changes to the source code. They’d still eat Wolfram’s lunch, which is why it won’t happen.
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Exactly. That's a good example what's wrong in our world. As long as this won't change we won't get closer to the FOSS world that every human deserves.
> "to the FOSS world that every human deserves"
Please explain how/why FOSS is human birthright?
Making good software requires significant effort (both up-front and on-going) and being compensated for that effort is reasonable