Big companies want to pay and have “support.” Lawyers don’t like licenses, they want a proper contract.

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.