What alternatives do people have to monetize software in a more ethical way?
I particularly don't understand the funding that some software receive. What they have to grant to receive those funds?
I also search for some type of monetization "model" better than donations, but more ethical than ads.
If it's too much to explain I would be grateful for terms or books that I could search later.
The slippery slope that projects taking this approach fall into boils down to 'let's put all our new features behind a business version and never add them to the community version until they become 2 totally different code bases'
What about a modular software, a base version and the modules are paid ? It would maybe avoid ramification? And the user would have more freedom.