Has anyone seen this yet?

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&ncid=1209&e=2&u=/nm/20030306/wr_nm/media_honestthief_dc&sid=95573713

Maybe unrelated, but consider that this could be incorporated into a 
Free Software/Open Source business model for developers as well. Once 
the software forks, it is no longer the same, and the original developer 
can no longer collect.

It's a thought, and half baked at that. Might make for an interesting - 
maybe practical - discussion.

Taran
http://www.knowprose.com