I wonder if there's a software business model where you buy the software for the binary and the source code?

[giorgiolucas@techhub.social]

I wonder if there's a software business model where you buy the software for the binary and the source code? The source code is not exactly open, but is available on that specific version. I'm also wondering how that would work for the software supply chain.

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[newsgroup@social.vir.group]

@giorgiolucas Wouldn’t releasing the source code with a specific version basically kill any incentive for customers to pay for upgrades, since they could just keep patching that version themselves?