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Sounds to me like an opportunity for a dual trademark business model. Similarly to a dual license model where you receive the software with a restrictive license like AGPL whose only purpose is to make the software undesirable to companies and a paid permissive licene like MIT you could also use an undesirable trademark for the free version and a professional trademark that companies are willing to associate themselves with.


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