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2. Release new tools to help people develop software (open source and otherwise) faster. Let the tools be theoretically possible to run on one's own, keeping Free Software supporters happy, but make it so resource-intensive to run that they won't be able to do without your company products in practice. Get your tool well embedded into the development process, and make it generate spaghetti code only it can understand so that people can't do without it

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3. Cut off access to the tool, either by limiting it to a small subset of projects, or by raising the price so much that developers can't continue using the tool without paying through the nose. The result is that any projects purporting to be Free Software are either crippled in development, outdated an unusable, or paying a large monetary price for their "freedom"

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