Yeah the word profit was badly used. We could imagine it would be a regular cost and just like you wouldn't be able to forfeit paying for printer paper because

Yeah the word profit was badly used. We could imagine it would be a regular cost and just like you wouldn't be able to forfeit paying for printer paper because you're not turning a profit you wouldn't either in this case. The AdSense and other forms of monetisation would be indeed trickier, as well as more complex usage patterns. Like if a business spins up a lot of machines, how would that go, perhaps charging for each machine the same would be too expensive. But charging just once would be unfair. Perhaps that could be somehow split/incorporated into what is charged to the end user, where it would just be a cost of running the service, the providers would do it on their end. Perhaps the licensing would be flexible, so you paid for some cloud provider they did the payment and as part of the invoice you would have this bill of usage as well. I would also imagine that no one would try to prosecute a guy using a blog, at the same time if they're doing adsense that blog/domain would be registered. It's not like I've spent more than the time it took me to write that thinking about it. If it was to work I also doubt it would be something that would come out right at the first iteration(s). It was more like, "wouldn't it be great if we had some sort of automatic distribution of credit that would somehow flow directly back to the source" but at the same time keeping the spirit of open source. It could possibly also align further, in a symbiotic way, service providers and open source as better software would mean lower costs, better integration, more time for tooling, etc. Or it could work the opposite and give rise to a gamed ecosystem.