I think there is a whole world between going all in on an open source license and allowing funded companies to simply competing with you vs not releasing source

I think there is a whole world between going all in on an open source license and allowing funded companies to simply competing with you vs not releasing source at all. We need a "fair source", or whatever we call it. We need a way for people to contribute, many ideas to gain a community of contributors, without a funded agent to simply focus on how to monetize the software. Open source or "fair source" are all distribution models. For people to see, try, adapt and maybe even contribute to your software ideas. It enables everyone to build and share. And if someone wants to compete with the stated software, they can buy a license. That is a fair business model, IMHO.