License?
Only one guy to handle the support?
Dev is an Unknown quantity?
Bad economy?
Cost he's asking is too high?
Cheaper for companies to build it themselves?
I have a lot of questions about it too. But it's clear there's something wrong in his business model here.
One cannot provide AGPLed software to their customer without releasing the whole service code under the same license. Like, one cannot build cloud complier/linker to process one's customers' code. But one can link their compiled code using this linker and then sell that binaries or employ them in the SaaS all right.
I have a lot of questions about it too. But it's clear there's something wrong in his business model here.