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I don't want to enter in the merit of your company's choice, it's definitely up to you what license to use, but I'm confused about that statement around AGPL. H
by riquito 4y ago
I don't want to enter in the merit of your company's choice, it's definitely up to you what license to use, but I'm confused about that statement around AGPL. How would AGPL harm users?
- bpicolo 4y agoThe lawyers often ban AGPL at tech cos
- JoshTriplett 4y agoWhich means they may pay for an alternative to the AGPL.
- blackoil 4y agoMore likely they'll ignore the s/w. Huge amount of talent is working in such companies. Using AGPL will practically exclude them from interacting with the s/w. Also, smaller companies like to play safe. If FAANG with their million lawyers aren't touching it, why should I take the risk.
- true_religion 4y agoBecause unlike FAANG you don’t have millions of engineers to create the software from scratch. Companies pay for databases (Oracle, Gemstone, MsSQL, anything at Amazon). Almost all the risks (price changes, maintenance costs, etc.) can be managed adequately via a long term enterprise contract.
- secondcoming 4y agoYes, we’re going through this right now
- romange 4y agoBy preventing them from using dragonfly. Many companies prohibit from dev teams(aka our users) from downloading and using agpl licensed software.