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by pabs3 1039 days ago
The AGPL doesn't prevent Amazon from competing with you if they wanted to (although they don't yet). There was an AWS employee just the other day saying that the AGPL isn't very hard to comply with. I'm sure that they could do that if they wanted and probably will do at some point.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37085386
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nirvdrum 1039 days ago
Fair enough. I'm sure Amazon has a legal team that's examined this far deeper than I have. If that's the case, it furthers my belief that GPL-like licenses aren't really providing what many are after.
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pabs3 1038 days ago
Yeah, what many are after is proprietary licenses, not open source ones. Any license that prevents the competition Hashicorp and others don't like just isn't an open source (as originally defined) license. As Drew Devault wrote, open source means surrendering your monopoly over commercial exploitation.

https://drewdevault.com/2021/01/20/FOSS-is-to-surrender-your...

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