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Well, then your comment dismantles the topic of the article.

• antt 8y ago
  Not really. There are three main roles in todays software eco-system. The developer, the administrator and the user. Each have interests that are orthogonal to the interests others. The developer wants to get paid to develop the source code. The administrator wants to be able to modify and deploy the source code and be paid for running the resulting program. The user wants to be able to review the source code and administration logs. Open source as currently defined covers 100% of the interests of the administrators and none of the interests of the other groups. The AGPL kind of covers some of the interests of the users. Closed source protects the interests of the developer. Being a member of all three groups I would be very interested in a license that manages the trade offs so the admins, in the guise of google and amazon, don't suck up all the money from developers and turn users into a commodity.