Hi HN,<p>I had this thought this morning that in the same way you purchase a $0.99 song to 2.99 application on iTunes, what if you could purchase a CLI or application view homebrew?<p>I understand the philosophy around open source and the benefits therein with respect to the ability to pull any package from say NPM or Homebrew, but I was curious: with supply chain attacks and package malware becoming more prevalent (linked in comments), would creating an economic side of the package distribution help? I get NPM sells enterprise SaaS, but I was thinking on the client end.<p>For e.g.<p>Opt 1. Paid Homebrew / NPM CLI<p>A paid package manager that analyzes the downloaded binary or package upon install. Basically "anti virus" package manager?<p>Opt 2. Paid packages<p>Instead of open source software developers seeking funding through open collective what if they could allow you to pay 1.99 via homebrew or npm to buy a license to the package some how?<p>I get the philosophical wrinkles in this, just curious peoples thoughts.