So... Spotify but for OSS?
replyI'm not sure this worked out as well as we thought it might do for the musicians.
Would a third party 'productising' FOSS be acceptable to the FOSS community?
replyfor example, adding support, bug fixes, corp-friendly licencing and pricing models, private code/package repos, code/package signing, etc. Providing biz ppl to be available for meetings, legal protection, PII, etc.
To foster goodwill, they could even send some of the profit back to the original maintainer, ala pikapods: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31312682
I'm not suggesting productizing but if someone skimmed 0.5-5% off of some of my packages licenses and gave me the rest without me having to do anything I would be happy with that. I think the important thing would be, customers would likely expect less support so licenses should be cheaper.
replyPeople who don't want tiered licenses could definitely just mit it and walk away of course.
I do like the idea of paying back the original maintainers otherwise people could sandbag projects to fork them later.