[rvz]

"Shame. I cannot take the code / binary and run it as a SaaS efficiently." - HNers

Good for him to commercialize it, and at least he is not pretending to be a non-profit accepting VC money.

[alexvoda]

Countering SaaS-ifying by others can also be achieved through the AGPL or through the BSL (initially not open-source, reverts to open source after set period).

I do believe one of the failures of GPL was not being AGPL from the start.