The reason that this kind of protest is happening now is that companies like GitHub have to continuously serve the product, they can’t just sell into a channel

The reason that this kind of protest is happening now is that companies like GitHub have to continuously serve the product, they can’t just sell into a channel and forget about what happens like a boxed software vendor or a furniture company. I wonder if this can create a new business model for an arms-length distributor, a company that maintains GitHub deployments for customers and pays royalties to GitHub. This distributor could sell to all kinds of unsavories while giving GitHub plausible deniability.