You make that sound like it's an accident and a scandal instead of the huge success it is. Most corporate software at this point consists of large parts of open source stuff. It's fantastic what businesses you can build with this stuff.
None of that software would have happened if it weren't for big corporations putting their resources behind those things AND pooling their resources by sharing code under an OSI approved license with each other. This is open source working as intended. Millions of developers are creating value and are relying on each other. And yes, some money gets made in the process. That's the whole point of committing that much resources. Most software development simply is not charity. And the willingness of companies to spend resources on software is typically motivated by their ability to use the resulting software.
And people can and of course do fork Android. E.g. Amazon and Huawei, etc. have nice products based on Android that don't include any Google proprietary bits. And there are many other android based and derived things out there. Likewise the various cloud providers have a lot of shared components that they depend on and they also are contributing a lot of code. Many of the smaller ones pretty much just use things like openstack. And they all rely on the same big open source things: Linux, Mysql, Redis, Docker, etc.
This would simply not happen with licenses such as AGPL. Easy to say, because it hasn't happened and shows zero signs of actually starting to happen.
None of that software would have happened if it weren't for big corporations putting their resources behind those things AND pooling their resources by sharing code under an OSI approved license with each other. This is open source working as intended. Millions of developers are creating value and are relying on each other. And yes, some money gets made in the process. That's the whole point of committing that much resources. Most software development simply is not charity. And the willingness of companies to spend resources on software is typically motivated by their ability to use the resulting software.
And people can and of course do fork Android. E.g. Amazon and Huawei, etc. have nice products based on Android that don't include any Google proprietary bits. And there are many other android based and derived things out there. Likewise the various cloud providers have a lot of shared components that they depend on and they also are contributing a lot of code. Many of the smaller ones pretty much just use things like openstack. And they all rely on the same big open source things: Linux, Mysql, Redis, Docker, etc.
This would simply not happen with licenses such as AGPL. Easy to say, because it hasn't happened and shows zero signs of actually starting to happen.