@DCLXVI@mstdn.io It is more complicated than that, as always. And I am not advocating for anything, just giving some thought.

In an imaginary situation where one company/developer/institution has enough money to sustain itself and a team of developers and releases software 100% free, it would make it very very difficult for anyone to compete with them.

People could easily just take for granted that this product is meant to be free.

Kinda comparable to linux distros now. You rarely see payed distros