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Re:Death of an open-source business model by chipotle_coyote on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @05:25PM (#25366148)
AWS specifically might not, but I can say with some certainty that cloud providers can host AGPL software. It's not impossible that Compose (the now IBM-owned cloud database hosting company) pulled in more revenue from RethinkDB than RethinkDB, Inc., did.
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Re:Death of an open-source business model by wmf on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @06:29PM (#25367008)
Yeah, it's a matter of risk. Rightly or wrongly you could get hit with a lawsuit that says "we have infected your entire control plane; open-source it or die" and every cloud provider has to weigh that for themselves.
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Re:Death of an open-source business model by smichel17 on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @07:49PM (#25367938)
To be fair, thigh, when the cloud provider has deeper pockets than the developer of the AGPL'd software, that means something different.
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