What about charging for build and distribution? Krita does something like this for their Steam and Windows Store versions, that helps finance their development. I personally believe that could also work for other distribution channels, such as a private APT repository, or equivalent to other platforms.
People could still build by themselves from sources if that's what they want, and if you want convenience you buy the software. Has that been tested? I personally think that could even work for CLI tools if a great distribution channel exists (that's something I have in mind since a while now, see this ask HN from 5 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22178949).
People could still build by themselves from sources if that's what they want, and if you want convenience you buy the software. Has that been tested? I personally think that could even work for CLI tools if a great distribution channel exists (that's something I have in mind since a while now, see this ask HN from 5 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22178949).