That's not what rent seekers are. And I don't know how we went from "I don't want billion dollar corpotations scraping my IP to train their for-profit products" to "I want everyone to pay me, forever".

In my mind, subscriptions imply support and/or updates, and I don't want to work on my software forever. But I don't necessarily want to give it out for free either. one lump sum sounds fine for me.