Ah, I wish I shared your optimism ;-). What's most likely to happen is the FOSS project eats its own: new participants notice that great add-on and cherry picks its functionality as their new contribution to the original project.
That indeed is a risk; however there is very good incentives in releasing a good product into the public domain, as it encourages others to contribute to the development.
I suspect the success/failure of that strategy will depend on the industry you're in
Absolutely. I am very fortunate to be involved in the sort of work I am as result. The arts is probably one of those industries where open source content is perhaps not the best methodology, although I do notice many do so - or something similar by disposition (e.g., Cort Doctrow, Nine Inch Nails etc).
Overall, I think that the world is moving towards a variety of differing licensing structures (GPL, Creative Commons etc) which are orientated towards an FOSS model as a general trajectory.
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That indeed is a risk; however there is very good incentives in releasing a good product into the public domain, as it encourages others to contribute to the development.
I suspect the success/failure of that strategy will depend on the industry you're in
Absolutely. I am very fortunate to be involved in the sort of work I am as result. The arts is probably one of those industries where open source content is perhaps not the best methodology, although I do notice many do so - or something similar by disposition (e.g., Cort Doctrow, Nine Inch Nails etc).
Overall, I think that the world is moving towards a variety of differing licensing structures (GPL, Creative Commons etc) which are orientated towards an FOSS model as a general trajectory.