I think you are slightly misunderstanding my point. I love OSS. I am a big fan. What I am not a fan of is maintainers giving their work away for $0 and then com

I think you are slightly misunderstanding my point. I love OSS. I am a big fan. What I am not a fan of is maintainers giving their work away for $0 and then complaining that nobody pays them $ for their work. That is what I call naive. It shows a complete lack of understanding of how humans and markets work. If you want to be paid $ for your OSS work then make it part of the license and sue companies that doesn't pay. Or (as you say yourself) sell it as a service. Or perhaps an entrepreneur will start a business that specialize in enforcing OSS payments as a service to OSS developers (taking a % fee in return).