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AGPL wouldn't help in this situation either, as it focuses on the sharing of modifications of the original. Imagine your child makes lemonade to sell and a fri
by skeledrew 3y ago
AGPL wouldn't help in this situation either, as it focuses on the sharing of modifications of the original.
Imagine your child makes lemonade to sell and a friend drops by, they say it's OK for the friend to have some, and then said friend takes a good amount of that lemonade, sets up a stand beside your child's, and sells that lemonade which they just poured into their own container for less, or with cookies made by yet another. Is that OK? How would you feel?
This is what large cloud providers are doing.
- yjftsjthsd-h 3y agoSo you put a nice restrictive license on the lemonade, and sure it makes your kid's customers unhappy, but at least it stops- oh wait, actually the other kid just made their own lemonade that's drop-in compatible and they still sell more.
- skeledrew 3y agoThe kid's customers have no reason to be unhappy. They come, pay for their lemonade and go. No problem if that other one goes off and makes their own; at least it's a more fair affair and they can honestly compete on actual merits. Although it still isn't even that fair IMO as the other is still using water and sugar that isn't theirs. They should be using all their own resources from scratch. If only the license change could be retroactive so said cloud companies had to either go to something totally different or build from scratch with their own hired team, instead of only having to fork from the last version before the change. They still have it really good, and that's why they continue to call for and abuse permissive licenses.