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The lawyers often ban AGPL at tech cos

• JoshTriplett 4y ago
  Which means they may pay for an alternative to the AGPL.
  • blackoil 4y ago
    More 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 ago
      Because 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 ago
  Yes, we’re going through this right now