What if we as a community developed a new way of paying for open source software with micropayments, based on how widely it was actually installed and used?

What if this system would be self-enforcing because of a network effect, like the Brave Browser does kinda? It could be enforced with a browser extension or by mobile web browsers.

There was a time when cryptocurrency promised to do that just, with utility tokens before regulators made everything either act like a security token or nothing. Before it was discovered that Ethereum wasn’t going to be scalable enough for actual payments and tokens would just ever be for occasional transactions between exchanges and most tokens became instruments of speculative investment and day trading instead of actual medium of exchange for goods and services?