[flucivja]

I wonder if OSS world needs kind of Spotify/Netflix platform for OSS distribution. If I would put in analogy OSS Developers to Music authors and songs/albums to OSS projects then such distribution platform would be paying developers depending on how much their project is used and maybe some other criteria and everybody who would like to use some OSS would need to pay monthly subscription to that platform.

[pjmlp]

They had it back in the day with stuff like the Walnut Creek CD-ROM distributions.

In the long run, the only monetary solution is to go back to some kind of PD/Shareware, which is what all those public core, commercial full solution end up being.

30 years ago we called those public core parts, playable demos.

[lomereiter]

You are describing Tidelift (https://tidelift.com/) except the bit where the users would "need to pay" - although that could be addressed e.g. via regulations for enterprises but not individuals.