[yencabulator]

I doubt "turn off Google Maps until we reimplement it from scratch" is an acceptable business continuity risk.

[foobiekr]

And most companies do resourcing months in advance on top of that. AGPL could have solved all of this with an explicit redress clause that wasn't effectively unbounded downside risk.

[teddyh]

Google could certainly afford to implement a stub replacement library as a contingency plan, in case they really would be that worried about it.

[zaarn]

The obvious solution is to completely reimplement the AGPL-ed software on your own, as a stub, in case the AGPL-ed software you want to use goes nuclear on you. Surely this will not cost a lot of developer time.