I'll pay if I find that the software provides sufficient advantages over other freely-available options. I've paid for SublimeText in the past. I've paid for a

I'll pay if I find that the software provides sufficient advantages over other freely-available options. I've paid for SublimeText in the past. I've paid for a handful of other proprietary Windows applications (Tag2Rename comes to mind) because the FOSS equivalents simply couldn't cut it for me. So yeah, I don't think it's a problem. Admittedly I guess the bar may be a little higher than it would be on Windows, since the expectation is that a FOSS solution exists on Linux, whereas Windows/Mac users may have been conditioned to expect that good software must necessarily cost money. But if it's worth it, I'll pay.