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Ie.: Open source = free as in speech, and cheap as in beer ;-)

sounds like twitter's new strategy

It's a good strategy. Suddenly spam costs money.

Does spam costing more money stop spam? Does it cost money per account, project, version? If I can make $100 from one victim, is this spam still profitable?

What happens to the international developers who cannot easily get a payment method setup?

Does a $10/m "identity verification" stop a nation state from using the platform to influence?

Fair argument. The spam fee should be proportional to the amount of spam rather than account or fixed monthly fee. Some kind of micropayment per spam item. Per repo, or per commit / per release in case of NPM?

Micropayments on internet have always proven difficult to implement. No silver bullets.

When there's so much spam, there's a cost to everyone.

Just like things work in scientific publishing I guess

So, terribly?