Comment by mingus88
12 days ago
Sure but developers would still add licensing checks, hosting some dependency offsite, or other obfuscation to try and force people into paying for the plugin
It just doesn’t work. Anyone who wants to will take it. I don’t see this problem going away
I have served many clients with wordpress sites who would much rather pay to license a supported plugin than use a "free" plugin they have to support themselves.
And then the authors realize this and make the free plugin a nightmare to manage to coax folk into paying for it
That is the entire business model of grafana