[intheleantime]

"You can even have and keep changes (unpublished) for you entire organization " -- add to that that the organization should have access to the source code, yes. That doesn't mean that you need to publish the code outside of your organization.

" Even if the instance isn't public, if you so much as have a contractor remotely accessing " -- Correct, now you are distributing the software to the "public" external to your own needs.

[kyaghmour]

"interacting with it remotely through a computer network" isn't "distributing", it's hosting. Companies providing software under Affero licenses love to play with words. That's fine. It remains a bad license for users. I choose not to use any software licensed under its terms.

[leanable]

Dislike the Affero for being onerous too, however:

How do you run the code on your local computer if the code was not distributed to you?

It is similar as the old days of having to distribute to you the compiled code for you to install on your local computer.