Yes, but the sweet spot for many services is the ability to offer hosting while ...

		tannhaeuser on Oct 4, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dual licensing GPL for fame and profit Yes, but the sweet spot for many services is the ability to offer hosting while allowing self-hosting, free dev licenses, and third-party integrations. It's a particularly good no-brainer sales story to contrast with self-hosting dominated by admin/HR, and possibly hardware/data center costs.

I guess this spot is not so sweet when Amazon "self-hosts" your software. So you need to make up your mind.