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		rvz on March 17, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: TextSynth Server "Shame. I cannot take the code / binary and run it as a SaaS efficiently." - HNers Good for him to commercialize it, and at least he is not pretending to be a non-profit accepting VC money.

alexvoda on March 17, 2023 [–]

Countering SaaS-ifying by others can also be achieved through the AGPL or through the BSL (initially not open-source, reverts to open source after set period).

I do believe one of the failures of GPL was not being AGPL from the start.

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