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That is totally absurd argument, those cloud or industry giants are not taking any extra privileges, they have explicit permission to use those software. In fact, they are the major adapters who boosts development and contribution to eco-system. They actively motivate their employees to improve the software and publicly contribute who are mostly the major contributors.

Big companies are not bound by these software, they can re-invent their own wheel if needed. They are the one who opensources major new technology without thinking about the profit for example. Anguler.js, React, Hiphop, Mysql etc.

Edit: If you really feel uncomfortable, you can release your software with GNU AGPL, That would be tit-for-tat in your way.



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