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I've been a FOSS user since 1993 and am totally willing to pay for software.

Here's the problem: any license that attempt to require businesses to pay for software or that restricts for-profit SaaSification tends to be rejected by the FOSS community. The AGPL is the closest we have and it doesn't really do that even it gets a lot of hate in FOSS circles.

Without such concerns being addressed in the license it's impossible to put any kind of direct simple business model behind open source software. This means that almost all businesses opt for a SaaS model where it's easy to charge or find other roundabout ways to "charge" such as harvesting user data.

TL;DR: the software market has structurally organized itself so as to almost rule out business models other than SaaS and surveillance.