"rely on social control mechanisms to punish people if they touch in ways you don't like" - in the industry I'm dealing with people get upset by other people us

"rely on social control mechanisms to punish people if they touch in ways you don't like" - in the industry I'm dealing with people get upset by other people using open source in a certain way to profit from it, yet the customers keep buying the rip-off products anyway and the people behind those products keep profiting. so at least there, social control isn't delivering the desired result. you could argue that social control acts as a marketing tool for the original developer of the project (?). in the RH case, are you talking about selling subscriptions to complement the free / open product?