Cool. You do that, good luck for selling support for your open source TikTok video effects app.

The gist is, for different situations different business models can work. If the one you propose works for your software, good for you.

The problem starts when you demand that other business models should not exist, so yours can work.

> when you demand that other business models should not exist, so yours can work.

Aside from the fact that in democracies we regularly oust business models which we believe have dimetral effects on society, this is not what happens here. Free software exists as a choice. And is often chosen freely, because of it's transparency, quality, and continuity, not because of it's price. In fact, when you base your work on a foundation so large that it's infeasible to recreate it, the Four Freedoms actually work in _your_ favor as a business.