[pevey]

And then the software would never be widely adopted.

FOSS is what it is and the dynamics around it haven't really changed.

What has changed is people wanting the rapid adoption rate possible from being FOSS without actually... being FOSS. I'm sorry, I have zero sympathy. If you want your product to be a paid product, just charge for it. What's that? No one would try it? Just give a free trial. What's that? Not enough people would use it for there to be this large community of people providing help, and tutorials, and addons/extensions/plugins, etc.?

The freeloaders are the people releasing their software as FOSS, using the community to get big, and then wanting to change their minds about it.

[cudgy]

How are they freeloaders if they haven’t received anything? Indecisive or regretful? Yes, but freloaders?