will you be happy if this only works for club goods? I think here the private entrepreneurial case is much stronger, and even in the original paper a lot of the discussion of strongest equilibria is for $K=N$ and club goods.
No, because of the loss of value due to unnecessary exclusion.
What mechanisms other than “culture” can you think of to stop the “raise a bunch of money, then put ads in anyway”
So I think for the platform I’m creating, I’ll only allow projects that are public goods (so if it’s media/software it must have a permissive license). That means that anyone can take the public good with ads and just remove the ads. That’s the main reason why open-source doesn’t have ads, because everytime someone tries to add ads, people fork the project to remove the ads (on Linux usually the package maintainers will remove the ads).
No, because of the loss of value due to unnecessary exclusion.
So I think for the platform I’m creating, I’ll only allow projects that are public goods (so if it’s media/software it must have a permissive license). That means that anyone can take the public good with ads and just remove the ads. That’s the main reason why open-source doesn’t have ads, because everytime someone tries to add ads, people fork the project to remove the ads (on Linux usually the package maintainers will remove the ads).