[hardwaresofton]

This is a good point, the AGPL and free software in general is really more about users than individual projects and developers.

AGPL may not have convinced Microsoft to collaborate.

[trelane]

It is in a roundabout way also about collaboration with upstream, since the users (or those working for them) are fully empowered to be developers if they so choose.

And the upstream and buy the product and get the same rights as a user.

But first and foremost it's about the users.