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lexicality09/01/20251 replyview on HN

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.


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ranger_danger09/02/2025

I think one of the big problems is that there are different definitions of freedom, and not everyone agrees.

freedom TO vs freedom FROM