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Or, you could use AGPL software and license it under AGPL as well. Considering most money today is made in the hosting and servicing and not selling license, I don't see why you would bother caring about old fashioned ways.


You're right, Google should drop their policy and open source the whole thing, since it's their data and GCP services that are the crown jewels, right? https://opensource.google/documentation/reference/using/agpl...


They are talking about integrating it with rest of their apps in monorepo tho. Not running a completely separate service that you only talk via API

It's kinda easy to miss that detail when you focus on bitching about license instead of the point.


You're right, Google is a sane and healthy model of business to follow and surveillance capitalism, based explicitly on capturing data on users and selling it to third-parties for ads is something that benefits society as a whole. There are absolutely no models other than the one Google is running.




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