Comment by aatd86

Maybe that's the whole point. Entities which rely on the product enough to propose contributions are more likely to be paying customers who really need to have a given feature available?

People seem to complain that they are burnt out by open source quite often so not sure that there are that many contributions apart from a couple projects.

It may also protect a project against business vultures. If you are trying to monetize your project but someone richer than you forks it and offer it for free, what can you do?

Yet, by being source available, the code is still auditable. It is easier for people to understand how the software works. And nowadays you can fine tune an LLM over it I guess...

Seems that is might also be a valid perspective? You can probably have a kind of bus clause so that source code does not become abandoned?