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The solution here is pretty simple: make your software free and open source. Transition your business model to paid support tiers, or paid hosted/managed offerings. I have been advocating for the promotion of FOSS software for years, and this model has worked very well for many software businesses. People will always crack and pirate software; not only will be a never-ending cat and mouse for you, but also inhibits the proliferation of truly free-as-in-freedom software.



That is a very naive proposal. There are a few open source projects that are actually successful, but far more that make no money at all.


The solution is simple but not easy. Relying on the goodwill of humans is often a terrible bet.




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