It could be that the "mods" of a different company are their whole IP. That is w... | Hacker News

Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit

		danuker on June 24, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How We built a $1M ARR open source SaaS It could be that the "mods" of a different company are their whole IP. That is why they'd avoid AGPL. And competing might not offer enough of a margin. Integration is hard, even if they save on the codebase itself.

robertlagrant on June 24, 2022 [–]

Interesting. The case in thinking of is ElasticSearch, where AWS just hosted it themselves and it's easy to deploy, works with CloudFormation and billed the normal way. AGPL wouldn't have changed any of that.

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact