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>Procurement officer will nag you with questions why should we pay if there is a free alternative (that's what you call market cannibalization)? Because their
by marcinzm 6y ago
>Procurement officer will nag you with questions why should we pay if there is a free alternative (that's what you call market cannibalization)?
Because their legal department prohibits them from running AGPL code :). That's a side reason for non-standard open source licenses I suspect. The hassle of getting legal to approve them is more than the cost of just paying for a commercial license.
- smarx007 6y agoNo, I was saying that procurement will tell you to use Mongo under AGPL (the free alternative) and not to embed it in the app (if you can). What I meant is that procurement takes OSS-licensed code as a "given" and carefully considers what they get on top of the base product when they pay money (while developers often think that they are charging for the whole thing, but in "enterprise" context). And that is where the blue ocean ends. Independent of that, you are completely right that most serious companies view non-standard free/"free" licenses as commercial and simply consider those as non-OSS products just like they would otherwise.