So if Invictus is invested in a new DAC, they wouldn't necessarily have an incentive to "sabotage" them by selling shares at a super low price? I guess so long as it is a new DAC unrelated to the services that Invictus provides...
Say the new DAC is a competing service that Invictus already offers... would there even be incentive for someone to compete with Invictus since Invictus could just change its protocol to the upgraded competing service's protocol and sell off the shares of a competitor at a hyper-undervalued price?
The only way Invictus makes money from our free, open source DACs is by owning shares in the ones we believe will make a profit and/or appreciate. If there's a competing DAC out there whose dividends are bigger and/or whose shares are appreciating faster than one of ours, we want to own more of its shares and less of ours!
It's a game of leap-frog building on each other's open source code for the good of all - investing in the current leader while perhaps trying to unseat him with yet another leap forward.
What the community sees is release after release of an ever-improving product that just happens to be produced by a distributed team of competitors. And it is the community that decides whether to upgrade or not.
Coerce that.