Plenty of OSS developers/companies have survived and make a living out of their work. You just have to provide enough value on top of your project with your clo

Plenty of OSS developers/companies have survived and make a living out of their work. You just have to provide enough value on top of your project with your closed-source services that people are inclined to pay for them, instead of hacking up their own solutions. Or consultation. No one forces you to make your project OSS. It's a trade-off you should consider carefully before you do. But because people keep doing it, it's clear there are massive benefits to it. And many open source projects are just modules extracted from the company code base to gather developer mindset and to reduce costs by harnessing outside developers. It's, as such, a fine model as it is. Rug-pulling and exertion of power through stupid lawyer BS is what kills those projects if anything. If people are not paying for your OSS addons, perhaps they aren't that good after all.