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> companies like Amazon abuse FOSS licenses to stand up their own hosted versions of open source projects

This is not an abuse of FOSS licenses. If developers have a problem with this, there are open source licenses that would make this use case less attractive for Amazon, like the AGPL.

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That licence tends to have the dual effect of dissuading otherwise valid users from using it, because a lot of devs and corps see “something something GPL” and just shut down.

That's where dual-licensing comes in like Artifex' AGPL + commercial licensing. But yes, most large Tech companies have a blanket ban on AGPL.

> most large Tech companies have a blanket ban on AGPL

sounds like it's doing its intended job well then?

Exactly, which is why all these companies that claim they can't survive without their shiny new I-can't-believe-it's-not-open-source licenses deserve all the scorn they get. I've flipped the bozo switch on Hashicorp.

Or, like HashiCorp Adopts Business Source License

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