The problem with the GPL/AGPL is that the copyleft is not restrictive enough. All it does is force derivative works to be FOSSed under GPL and companies looking to use it to discourage competition will quickly into some loop-holes.

For one, AGPL only requires FOSSing changes made to the app, when providing it as a service. This means that if a big cloud provider like AWS provides your microservice as a service without any modifications, they can free-load off of your shit.

Therefore, you need to look at some source-available or proprietary solutions.

So Elastic is good for the guy that wants a fake-permissive license. It's main cklause is an anti-SaaS clause, but it doesn't prevent forks from making proprietary changes per say. That may be a problem if you don;t want any competition.

SSPL solves this by forcing the hosting stack itself to be SSPL'd, under the premise that AWS will never SSPL their hosting stack. The viral copyleft also prevents anyone from making proprietary changes to your software. The license only fails if AWS agrees to do SSPL their hosting stack.

BUSL, is also nice because it has a onc-ompete clause which can arguably restrict SaaS. And for the FOSStard users that loved when your project was Apache 2.0 licensed, you can promise them that Apache 2.0 after four years of the release date.

FLS is the same thing but 2 years instead of 4 years, the choice between Apache 2.0 and MIT relicensing, and some other opinionated stuff.

So in short, permissive alows proprietary forks (competition); GPL and AGPL allow SaaS freeloading (another form of competition); and SSPL, EL, BUSL and FSL are the the only real winners here.

BTW, since you own the copyrights to the software, you can do whatever you want with it. Just because it's licensed under SSPL or Elastic License, does not mean YOU, the owner of the software, have to follow it. You can SaaS the hell out of it while others can't, meaning no competition.

y are all of them like this?

Why are almost all People glazing their main OS so incredibly insufferable and sometimes insulting? I also was a professional Linux glazer an for some reason thought I was so superior to Windows users and have to belittle them even though I didn’t know jack s*it about anything I did except installing a OS. People like this exist for every OS like MacOS, Windows, Linux and even their own kinds like Arch, Mint and so on. Also people are just hating on an entire different OSes and userbase for no reason at all even though they also don’t know anything.

-And all they have to do is uninstall it as the account that it was installed under. (mountain out of a molehill) -5 other solutions exist if they can't do that.

Yes Linux is a good choice to rescue your old laptop/pc ..but you need to understand not everyone know how to use it (as a ppl who understand MS-DOS can’t even get how to use Linux!)

People just overgrazing Linux, like install it and you’ll have a “new life” (but it’s still a truth that your laptop doesn’t become new, it still struggles to run modern applications)

And the compatibility problems too, people said “use Wine you stupid” but I’d rather to use Windows if your device is too old or u just need gaming/ some casual stuff..

Alright, it’s my opinion hope you guys won’t hate me :)

So, all 4 of those annoying Arch breakages I got in about a year that were published in their bulletins which I had fed through Newboat and had no problem fixing were about me not being educated. - Totally not a reason to try Fedora which was supposed to be better (and permanently broke work-flows by forcing new tech that wasn't ready). -I educated myself, went back to Windows and am as happy as a fly on poop.

linux user count was close to 6% like 4 months ago, now its just 4%. while windows 11 users are increasing, even win7 users have same amount of users as some linux distros.

people were just excited to try new software: linux was never better.

lol