@polarity @zeyus I mean, they need money to actually develop shit. Because I get it for free through my distro, I setup a monthly donation to them.
Yeah, software costs money to develop, and maintain. Some go the unethical route by making it proprietary. Ardour has made their DAW open source and Linux users get it for free b/c distros put in the work to compile it (I donate to Debian as well).