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Some people dont want to deal with that aspect of the business. Anyone that does is free to

• dustinmoris 8y ago
  Setting up a payment page and writing one line to the license, even if I outsource that one time effort, will be indefinitely cheaper than having my revenue at the mercy of some random algorithm which doesn't even take into account how important my software might be to a company and giving a huge cut to a third party which really doesn't do anything other than profiting of my hard work. I struggle to see the appeal for OSS maintainers.
  • detaro 8y ago
    For one thing, Open Source software can't require commercial users to pay. The common way is AGPL then, in the assumption that it's unacceptable for companies to comply with, and selling a different license too. It's also a hurdle to take that someone makes a decision to pay for your thing specifically (and doesn't go search for a free replacement). Lots of still quite valuable components don't really meet that hurdle, and you severely limit your adoption by using e.g. AGPL. If (and that's a large if) tidelift gets somewhat widely adopted, it'd trickle down to all parts of the ecosystem, not just the few standout pieces being able to get paid otherwise.