>It wasn't that long ago that using open source software required a lot of politicking inside my clients, and we could easily go back there with enough spooked

>It wasn't that long ago that using open source software required a lot of politicking inside my clients, and we could easily go back there with enough spooked executives. That's what this discussion is about. You want to monetize your Free software project? That's a very different discussion to this one, about which nobody writing Free software need care. Note also the "protestware" or whatever nonsense this is didn't hit anyone with a support contract from the developer, or am I wrong with that guess? So big co.s are using a metric ship load of code that they didn't pay a cent for and don't bother even reading once. Just hit the auto-update while paying and contributing nothing,, then claim this is the fault of Free software somehow? Yeah. Ok. Bye. The value proposition sucks for them, apparently so they'll pay someone a lot of money to solve that. Nobody else need care - unless you're sliding into that space to solve that problem for them.