Exactly, as much as we love open source in many ways it's also kind-of destroyed the mid-segment of fixed-software sales(the dBase, Lightwaves, Turbo Pascals,et

Exactly, as much as we love open source in many ways it's also kind-of destroyed the mid-segment of fixed-software sales(the dBase, Lightwaves, Turbo Pascals,etc) and we really need a way to find back to it. Because not only is people not gaining income from their work (even if for example the Blender foundation exists.. how many people can live off it?) but we're also straining a lot of open source developers with support that really needs to be paid-for in some fashion. I don't fault Stallman in this instance(not a fan in general), the GPL always allowed re-sales and I think he did see something akin to the shareware world even with free software, but what happened was the combination with the Internets ubiquity made everyone just jump to the source (kind of rightfully due to bad shenanigans by middlemen actors like SourceForge or worse) leaving potential supporting middlemen screwed.