[golubbe]

Cloud computing is becoming the dominant model, and the current combination of OSS licenses and public cloud players/incentives make it nearly impossible for OSS companies to monetize in the cloud. While there are no perfect answers, we either need to come up with new licenses (difficult) or pursue a new approach to cloud (decentralization) that supports OSS monetization.

[brobdingnagians]

The umbrella issue is monetization of software. Perhaps the philosophy of OSS as a monetization strategy is fatally flawed for certain types of software. I love OSS and it is very useful, but in the world we see that some things are better suited for selling online (not usually pet food), etc. Perhaps it is simply an issue of a particular problem that cannot be well solved by OSS. If that is the case, then perhaps we fall back to the idea of "software monetization" and go proprietary for certain things which work best that way, while pushing OSS for things where it works very well.