Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on Linux
I don&#x27;t understand, why is there such a hard dichotomy between &quot;commercial - binary blob&quot; and open source? Why can&#x27;t most commercial software ship with sources, with a sane license that allows a license holder to study, recompile and modify, but not publish derivative work?<p>90% of the people who want the source would not pirate the software, and 100% the pirates are satisfied with a binary copy. And don&#x27;t tell me about copy protection, in practice it&#x27;s just as effective as a line in the EULA: for any worthwhile software, those who don&#x27;t care about the license don&#x27;t care about copy protection either.<p>I have no problem paying for software, but I don&#x27;t want to surrender all control of my hardware for a 3rd party to run secret code on it.