And further, who would actually receive the payments? The programmers who wrote the code? The folks who packaged up the distributions? Would it be useful to

And further, who would actually receive the payments? The programmers who wrote the code? The folks who packaged up the distributions? Would it be useful to have some sort of open source payment organization, a la ASCAP for composers, such that a general fund comes from donations from happy software users, and based on some formula, members of the organization get payouts based on the frequency of the usage of their software?