The AGPL is designed to guarantee that end users can stand up their own cloud services.
Maybe after enough nerds get bitten by IoT, some will band together and build compelling AGPL infrastructure to support future products.
Most of these things are just a standard dumb device with a standard SoC wired in. I imagine there are plenty of smaller product integrators that just want to sell a widget and don’t care about software differentiation.
This is what happened in the 80’s and 90’s with PC clones. It only takes a slip up (like the PC BIOS and DOS) from one incumbent player, and then the consumers will win.
Maybe after enough nerds get bitten by IoT, some will band together and build compelling AGPL infrastructure to support future products.
Most of these things are just a standard dumb device with a standard SoC wired in. I imagine there are plenty of smaller product integrators that just want to sell a widget and don’t care about software differentiation.
This is what happened in the 80’s and 90’s with PC clones. It only takes a slip up (like the PC BIOS and DOS) from one incumbent player, and then the consumers will win.