Hi Leandro, I've been reading and thinking a lot about OSS sustainability recently, so this sounds interesting to me. I have several questions:<p>1. Have you seen StackAid <a href="https://www.stackaid.us" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.stackaid.us</a>? it seems like a similar distribution model, although for donations and not for access as I understand your proposal would be.<p>2. How would you enforce paying for the subscription to get access to the software?<p><pre><code> - e.g. would people have to publish exclusively in your platform instead of e.g. GitHub?
- would the source be available for non subscriptors?
- would some sort of license hack be involved?
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3. Wouldn't people working on non (yet) profitable OSS be disencouraged from using your project if it requires paying upfront?<p><pre><code> is the assumption that most OSS devs would already be paying their low rate subscription?
wouldn't it make sense for the rate to be somehow proportional to the benefit the company gets from the software? e.g. you'd want Amazon to pay more than 2k a year if they are selling a product around some OSS project.
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4. Having to put your work (and potential source of income) in a private/closed platform seems to be a growing concern for creators (e.g. artists in twitter and devs in Github/Microsoft). Perhaps you'd want to clarify a bit better how it'd be different for this platform, how authors would still be in control of their stuff, etc.<p>5. Have you done the math for this, e.g. how much money would be available if most companies payed for this subscription and how much would maintainers receive?