The AGPL is fundamentally flawed. Imagine if Google were subject to it; the idea of free software is to have the option to modify that which you run yourself. Without a million spindles, Google's main products are useless to you.
> Imagine if Google were subject to it; the idea of free software is to have the option to modify that which you run yourself. Without a million spindles, Google's main products are useless to you.
Without years of expertise, and tons of free time, you will not be able to modify the free software either. You can have someone do it on your behalf though, and just as well you could have had someone (Yahoo? Microsoft?) run Google software for you, had it been available as free software.
> Without years of expertise, and tons of free time, you will not be able to modify the free software either. You can have someone do it on your behalf though, and just as well you could have had someone (Yahoo? Microsoft?) run Google software for you, had it been available as free software.
I'd like to see something like this with regards to B corporations or non-profits. Something like Gmail, Gravatar, or the like that are services you can pay for, but they're not run for-profit. Companies can bid on the management of the service, maintenance of the underlying open source packages, and so forth.
Something between municipal fiber and Wikipedia, but for SaaS services.
Services are different than software.