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Re:Tidelift wants open-source developers to get paid by pjmlp on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @02:49AM (#18064150)
Because you cannot prevent redistribution of the source code, so there is no way to enforce payments to the original authors.

This is the major reason why consumer desktop software for FOSS platforms is a commercial failure, unless tied to server walls.

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