alt Hacker News> Well, too bad for them, because I can still fork this AGPL software and compete. So what's the issue?
No legal department will ever allow it due to the FUD. That's the whole fucking point.
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jraph • 09/01/2025
Sorry, but I won't cry for corps big enough to have legal departments because they elected not to benefit from my software. They have too much power for me to worry about looking to accommodate them and their fantasy.
I don't mind them not using my code. They are doing themselves here.
They have the human power to rebuild it anyway and I actually believe it should cost them.
it's actually them who are spreading the FUD, because they don't like the AGPL.
Meanwhile, my goal of providing software freedom to my users is fulfilled.
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The AGPL is supposed to increase user freedom, not the legal department's freedom.
The FSF have never cared even slightly about corporations being happy. Who cares if Google can't enrich themselves further? The point is to protect the users who are free to fork / host the software themselves.