> Given this property of the Internet, and the decision of open source/Free Software to embrace rather than fight this property, what side-channels can be constructed to return some value to the developers?
One interesting execution of this is https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/. Develop awesome FOSS, aided in part by the community, and scare enterprise users into paying for it by using the restrictive-through-forced-openness AGPL license.
To be perfectly clear, I don't think this is bad, just interesting. And I understand that RStudio also makes money through SaaS offerings, but that's not as interesting.
One interesting execution of this is https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/. Develop awesome FOSS, aided in part by the community, and scare enterprise users into paying for it by using the restrictive-through-forced-openness AGPL license.
To be perfectly clear, I don't think this is bad, just interesting. And I understand that RStudio also makes money through SaaS offerings, but that's not as interesting.