There's a lot of great software out there. Open source and Linux/BSD is in my blood. But sometimes people deserve to be paid.

Here's an example from the other day. A friend was looking for video capture software on Mac. Kept having troubles with all the typical open source tools. Well here's one that works great. It's ~$30.

https://www.bensoftware.com/swiftcapture/

Is it really that insane to give this guy $30 for making a tool that saves you a ton of time and works reliably? That would hours of time debugging why the hell ffmpeg is being buggy and nobody's fixed it for years? If you even have the expertise to figure that out? That's highly optimized for your OS/hardware and even tightly integrates with MacOS-specific features?

Really?