>These developers naturally want to use the great software at work they do or use as a hobby, so they are willing to compromise with the powers at be (business

>These developers naturally want to use the great software at work they do or use as a hobby, so they are willing to compromise with the powers at be (business leadership) and release their software under a more permissive license (or pressure their peers working on OSS to release it under more permissive license). The funny thing is that using the AGPL or GPL would benefit them; the company abides by whatever rules they want since they hold the copyright and the developer gets to use the code for their side projects. The only people who are out of luck are competitors who can't use the code unless they want to abide by the AGPL or GPL. Basically, using the GPL protects the company. The only concern you should have is if a competitor has enough resources and is unafraid of the GPL or you don't want users to self-host (supposedly eroding the revenue stream in a SaaS, though I don't see it since it takes effort to self-host)