Generally speaking, #copyleft codebases interact best with small-to-medium business ventures rather than advancing the interests of megacorps.

#Mastodon is an obvious example — which has a growing ecosystem of small businesses (like @mastohost) & nonprofit entities working in collaboration.

We see similar in the #GPL'd #Drupal community.

When megacorps get involved with copylefted projects, it's usually to exploit rather than engage — hence the widespread #GPLv2 violations on #Linux.
#AGPLv3

Generally speaking, #copyleft codebases interact best with small-to-medium business ventures rather than advancing the interests of megacorps.

#Mastodon is an obvious example — which has a growing ecosystem of small businesses (like @mastohost) & nonprofit entities working in collaboration.

We see similar in the #GPL'd #Drupal community.

When megacorps get involved with copylefted projects, it's usually to exploit rather than engage — hence the widespread #GPLv2 violations on #Linux.
#AGPLv3

@bkuhn @eruwero @maybeanerd Okay, this derailment of yours it taking more than 11.000 characters that I can put in this post to cleanup whilst going anywhere and so I'd stick with @InnuendoStudios 's advice and not entertain a fruitless discussion that is a waste of time, traffic, storage and mental energy.

• Or as people in Bavaria would say: "Get lost!"

Feel free to come back once you got something productive to bring to the table, except ticking the box for "cringe Stallman-esque GPLnazi" cuz your arguments make you sound like the kind of toxic folks that make it really hard to convince someone to ever do FLOSS at all.

• The kind of people that harrass folks on GitHub for not putting their code under #GPLv3 instead of being happy that someone decided to share their code, free of charge with no expectation of monetary compensation in return!

If you want to make ends meet writing code then I'm sorry to pop that bubble but aside from #CCSS there's hardly any chance that happens.

• Projects like #Linux are the exception,from the norm and even there it's just key players/donors telling their #employees to make things work (i.e. write drivers so people can run Linux as Guest on Hyper-V)

So yeah, if you want to get paid then #AGPLv3 won't do that either!

• All #SSPL and other #AssholeLicensing did was get big corporations to hire folks to make drop-in replacements to replace stuff like #Redis with better alternatives!

As for me: I'm busy beyond #WageWork, and the reasons are literally NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS!

#thxbye #next #EOD

@bkuhn @mastohost @eruwero @maybeanerd well, I merely refer to the fact that most.companies I've had to deal with won't touch #AGPLv3 because it's provisions are incompatible with #IP laws and #patents as well as #licensing.

• #GPLv3 and it's issues and the general enforcement problems got covered my @landley ....

🤔…Fascinating that @kkarhan claims sponsors & corporate contributors will “never get involved” with an #AGPLv3 codebase by *using* an AGPLv3 codebase — namely #Mastodon — to make these false claims.

Plenty of people getting sponsored & are starting businesses around Mastodon (including @mastohost, which I use), & Donald Trump himself — Truth Social is a (now) AGPLv3 compliant fork of Mastodon.

Perhaps Google+ would be a replacement for Mastodon you'd prefer?

Cc: @eruwero @maybeanerd

@landley @eruwero @maybeanerd but if your goal is to "commit asset-denial" against GAFAMs then shure, #AGPLv3 is a shure-fire method to have neither corporate users nor -sponsors…

• If you expect to be paid to maintain #FLOSS you need to find a company willing to do that, and they certainly won't do AGPL but either #openwashing with " #SourceAvailable" shit like #SSPL or choose #0BSD up to #GPLv2.