The linked post seems to indicate there are commercial licensing options. Of course, businesses would prefer to use this for free, but I'm sure they can pay for a license that doesn't bind them to the terms of the AGPL.
But if it’s AGPL, I’ll move on. They’re too idealistic to deal with megacorp. They don’t sell through intermediaries, can’t/won’t be insured enough, etc.
Inevitably the small company sees $$$ and goes nuts trying to sell even when warned not to. Then the risk management and contract stuff kicks in, drags out, and kills it.
The small company blew a bunch of cash on nothing. Or they base sales projections on it. I’ve seen a couple go under.
Those are people’s livelihoods and I can’t do that to them.
That’s not limited to AGPL, but the license is a signal of that type of business. And they never do the smart thing with megacorp and sell through an established intermediary.
Takes a lot of good software off the table.
Most companies are fine with BSD/MIT software with absolutely no support. Your argument holds absolutely no water compared to what they actually want which is to take other people's work and close it up for profit.
If they want a license to close it up, they can pay for it.