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Re:Death of an open-source business model by joejoebags on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @01:33PM (#25362062)
I'm not super familiar with AGPL and how it might address this issue, but I would love to be enlightened.
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Re:Death of an open-source business model by wmf on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @02:09PM (#25362911)
Cloud providers and enterprises are afraid of AGPL being "super-viral" so they'll either pay for the non-AGPL version or not touch the software.
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Re:Death of an open-source business model by rocky1138 on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @10:27PM (#25369289)
Or follow the license and provide their changes for maintainers to merge upstream, making the original project better. Isn't that the point of GPL licenses to begin with?
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