I think the intention of the original license was to make the software unpalatable to SaaS vendors who want to keep their changes proprietary, not unpalatable to enterprises in general.
I think the intention of the original license was to make the software unpalatable to SaaS vendors who want to keep their changes proprietary, not unpalatable to enterprises in general.
Rightly or wrongly, large companies are very averse to using AGPL software even if it would cause them very little additional burden to comply with the AGPL. Lots of projects use this cynically to help sell proprietary licenses (the proof of this is self-evident -- many such projects have CLAs and were happy to switch to a proprietary license that is even less favourable to enterprises than the AGPL as soon as it was available).
Again, I'm happy to use AGPL software, I just disagree that the intent here is that different to any of the other projects that switched to the proprietary BSL.
I haven't actually talked with Henry Poole about the subject, but I'm pretty sure that was not his intent when he wrote it.