You need a second product or service that can't be given away for free. It needs to fit perfectly: Buying B with A should make sense in some sub set of cases. B must not be required to use A.
I've seen only one free software that solved the puzzle completely perfectly* It does mean it can be done but it seems hard enough that one should probably explore picking B before A.
* IIRC It was a desktop Payroll software that only displays ONE advertisement for a lone but only when you have insufficient funds to pay your employees, it does a credit rating based on previous salaries paid and previous financing, there are no forms to fill out as your info is already in the application. I think one can also pay the installments from the application.
In that situation the offer seems completely perfect. A button to press that completely solves your problem when you have it.
You're being downvoted but I think this is good harsh feedback.
Open source, public domain products are better. Lots of engineers understand that and want to make those things. But the laws currently incentivize doing things the wrong way.
We can either change the laws, or go back to first principles and see if there might be open source business models that haven't been tried yet.
I don't care if I get down voted for my opinions on the internet :). My view on it is simple... The way the current internet is set up, it'd be really difficult to make these types of projects profitable.
Even if you make more laws, it'd be super hard to find people violating said laws, and even harder to bring them into court as a company struggling to get started. Big and even medium size companies play these games all day.
To be clear I think we need fewer laws. Specifically I think IP laws need to be abolished.
Software development, academic research, et cetera should be done in the open and public domain. Less monopoly profits for a few, better information and software for all.
open source doesn't necessarily mean you're giving it away for free. often the product is actually a service and having the source isn't necessarily useful to consume said service.
Sure but in this particular case the product is absolutely being given away for free. There is no service attached to having a faster linker, you just grab the code and off you go.
The only monetization it has is basically a big sign saying "please pay something if you want to", and not enough people want to.
If people can't grab the source and use it to run the service, where is the incentive to improve the source? So this may be "open source in name only" - it has an open license, but it doesn't actually build an open ecosystem around it.
I've seen only one free software that solved the puzzle completely perfectly* It does mean it can be done but it seems hard enough that one should probably explore picking B before A.
* IIRC It was a desktop Payroll software that only displays ONE advertisement for a lone but only when you have insufficient funds to pay your employees, it does a credit rating based on previous salaries paid and previous financing, there are no forms to fill out as your info is already in the application. I think one can also pay the installments from the application.
In that situation the offer seems completely perfect. A button to press that completely solves your problem when you have it.