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AGPL doesn't fix the problem as it isn't a matter of these companies using the code, but the developers being taken advantage of unfairly. Amazon publishing the
by Crinus 7y ago
AGPL doesn't fix the problem as it isn't a matter of these companies using the code, but the developers being taken advantage of unfairly. Amazon publishing their modified Linux wont be of much help to anyone who isn't Amazon and uses Amazon's hardware - the only one who might be helped is other entities like Amazon (namely, Google, Apple, etc). The problem isn't even companies not contributing back changes (Apple does, for example), it is merely developers essentially working for multibillion companies "for free".
Of course this is a problem that developers made for themselves and something that they were warned against but chose to ignore.
- kerkeslager 7y agoI think that this is maybe mistaking why some developers create free software in the first place. Personally, it's not about money when I do it--for me it's about pushing humanity forward with new capabilities. So for me, the problem really is companies not contributing back changes. Even if companies use my software, I don't see it as me working for them for free, I see it as me working for humanity for free. That said, no free software I've ever written has ever gotten a significant user base, so perhaps my feelings would be different if I were a more successful free software developer.