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Continuum has been doing something very similar with Anaconda, and they've been around for over a decade now.

• hobofan 1y ago
  From what I can tell they (had to?) ramp up their aggressiveness regarding getting paid though. They had contacted a company I had worked for asking them to purchase a license, because apparently somewhere in the company some dev workflow had contacted the conda servers regularly. We never ended up tracing it down as it stopped some weeks before them contacting us, according to our network logs. In general, you don't resort to such sales tactics unless there is good cause (significant usage, where you as unpaid vendor also have leverage) or you just end up burning potential future customers (as was the case here, as they chose a bad contact point inside the company).
• physicsguy 1y ago
  And Enthought before them...