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The AGPL does squat all for the social problems causes by SaaSS, and only succeeds in being a technically non-free license.

Nobody cares if you take some open source server software, and run version that you modified with your own cool features, without sharing the source code, and this is something you're entitled to under the FSF's Freedom Zero.

Among the social harms of SaaSS, this is not on the radar; and obsession with it shows either that the FSF are out of touch, or that they think that any action is better than inaction, so that if they take a swing at the problem with the wrong tool (copyright licensing) they look like they gave it a good college try.

The problem of SaaSS is people being locked to a service because that's where their data is siloed. This harm can be perpetrated with completely unmodified software you can download yourself. Running your own copy does nothing to solve the problem; your copy is not where the data is, where the other users are.



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