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Please don't believe that this strategy is "reliable" in any way to get paid, if you or your company need that money for survival. FOSS and especially (A)GPL is

by j1elo 14d ago

Please don't believe that this strategy is "reliable" in any way to get paid, if you or your company need that money for survival. FOSS and especially (A)GPL is just about forcing the balance to put more power in end user's hands, nothing else. A Proprietary+AGPL license combo might get you some cash from business wanting to change the code, but it will still allow any Amazon out there to host your code for free as part of their service catalog, while you are left to go out of business.

AnthonyMouse 13d ago
> it will still allow any Amazon out there to host your code for free as part of their service catalog, while you are left to go out of business. Most other licenses allow them to do that without even contributing back improvements, since they're running the software but not distributing it. Moreover, what is your business supposed to be? When you're selling support contracts or getting paid to make specific improvements to the code, what difference does it even make that some customers are running the software on AWS rather than their own local hardware?