Companies often pay for commercial licenses and to use SaaS. Just look at the number of companies paying for Oracle or support from a GNU/Linux vendor like Ubuntu or Red Hat.
I wonder if it's about control. With a SaaS you can switch to a competitor. It's possible to switch between GNU/Linux distros and the companies that support them. Change is possible. This can protect you from a vendor tanking or who has bad behavior.
Oracle is an outlier. They aren't going away. There's enough business to keep them around. And, many companies are trying to get away from them slowly.
When you have an AGPL and commercial dual license it puts that vendor in control. Do big businesses like putting others in a position of power and control over them? If that business is small or a startup do they want to have that as a hard dependency? Is it a risk to the big business?
This isn't about paying for commercial licenses. It's about risk mitigation. Something big businesses do a lot of.
I wonder if it's about control. With a SaaS you can switch to a competitor. It's possible to switch between GNU/Linux distros and the companies that support them. Change is possible. This can protect you from a vendor tanking or who has bad behavior.
Oracle is an outlier. They aren't going away. There's enough business to keep them around. And, many companies are trying to get away from them slowly.
When you have an AGPL and commercial dual license it puts that vendor in control. Do big businesses like putting others in a position of power and control over them? If that business is small or a startup do they want to have that as a hard dependency? Is it a risk to the big business?
This isn't about paying for commercial licenses. It's about risk mitigation. Something big businesses do a lot of.