That's not entirely true. There are services I pay for that I don't want to run at home. Sometimes the convenience is worth it. Look at tarsnap. It's basical

That's not entirely true. There are services I pay for that I don't want to run at home. Sometimes the convenience is worth it. Look at tarsnap. It's basically just encrypting files and sending it to S3, entirely open source, and he's still able to charge. I'm sure he's not living the high life off of it, but most people aren't off single products anyway.