[gcr]

They both sell it for profit, but Amazon doesn’t contribute changes upstream, so the public + rest of the industry won’t benefit from their work. It’s not an equivalence.

[dmantis]

> Amazon doesn’t contribute changes upstream

Are you sure that's the case with AGPL? Cause they can sue them and enforce the contribution. I doubt that's the case. And those who went with MIT/BSD openly allow distribution without contribution.

[gcr]

In the USA, small companies don’t generally have the resources to take large companies to court, even if they’re in the right.

[kortilla]

Many companies build on top of open source to make money and don’t contribute back. That’s not the problem.