Gideon I am beginning to think yours is the correct way.
You should not seek to make money for your scripts that you talk about. I know, I know, you might make hundreds of thousands of dollars off your scripts if you sell them, but this is not the best way to proceede. Instead, what you should do is go into another business, and insert branding bugs into the scripts and links into the scripts that will drive traffic to your new business, such as making widgets, and you can sell those to this traffic.
Of course you won't enjoy this as much as writing and selling your scripts, nor will you make nearly as much money, but as you say this is the new way of the internet.
We can all memberships to our script sites, giving your scripts away for free and give a link back to your widget business.
Do let us know how that works out.
