It warms my heart to hear Google despises the AGPL. I switched to licensing everything I make under the AGPLv3 a few years back, let me tell you: every passing

It warms my heart to hear Google despises the AGPL. I switched to licensing everything I make under the AGPLv3 a few years back, let me tell you: every passing day further enshrines my conviction that this is the only fair license for Freedom Software in the new age. MIT and BSD were fun when e-mail was a good protocol. When there were no bad actors and everything was jolly fair and cooperations and bulltetin board rainbows and unicorns (it's before my time but I imagine that's what it must have been like). GPL was fun when computers were computers, not dumb terminals calling APIs on private clouds. But today, the only weapon we have to protect our liberty in a digitising age, is the AGPL. It is a breath of fresh air, and my second favourite four-letter acronym of the decade, just after GDPR. I would like to take a moment to urge anyone starting new software projects: please use the AGPLv3. The proof is in the pudding: this very article. Corporations will suddenly have to do the unthinkable: pay you for your software if they want to limit their users' freedom! Remember, you can always license AGPLv3 by default, and offer less freedom licenses for payment. The Qt model. Win win. Richard Stallman was right. A prophet. Like Snowden, much maligned. Unlike Snowden, oft maligned by the very people who should know better :( but that's the life of a radical. Less flippantly: with every wave of freedom erosion, through cloud computing, DRM, etc, I am surprised at how, yet again, RMS turned out to be less and less ridiculous. I remember thinking him so obscene and extreme, but no: on bloody point. Much respect, and I thank him dearly for the weapons he gave us, for a fight we didn't even know we were about to have.