PayDev: FOSS Monitization or new supply chain attack?

This is an ancient business model (https://www.ghostscript.com/ did that in the 80’ IIRC): delaying releases and selling access to them earlier. It did not work out significantly although there has been a few examples that persisted in implementing that strategy.

A platform designed to facilitate the implementation of this particular business model is a novel idea. But I’d be extremely surprised if it gets traction.

I think this should be a good fit for discussion on https://coding.social/

P.S. I took the liberty to redact the URL to this service assuming you would be inclined to not help it with referencing. Feel free to revert the change if you feel I overstepped.

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