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> educate their organisations on the importance of supporting open source solutions

Githubs of the world could just gate downloads, pull requests etc. behind a payment to see what is the real valuation of open source software; I imagine it'd mostly settle around $0 excluding couple of big projects.

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Up until the semicolon, this was actually a decent point. I can see a future for high-quality open-source software hosted on an 'app store' which requires a small payment for use - or for commercial use, perhaps.

And how are you going to prevent someone from just hosting a mirror for free?

That's the question that such an effort would have to solve. I think you're assuming a model where software is directly used by an individual consumer, though, which is not always the case. For commercial applications where your software is integrated into the end product, for instance, companies would never risk stealing unlicensed code considering the risk. How one would address the question you posed is entirely dependent on the domain one's operating in.

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