No, I did not. Making a priority to have free software in my stack is not the same as accepting anything "just because it is free". > I do know that isn't an a

No, I did not. Making a priority to have free software in my stack is not the same as accepting anything "just because it is free". > I do know that isn't an argument that's going to convince anyone using Photoshop to switch over to Gimp. Gimp vs Photoshop is a somewhat bad example to the topic at hand (closed systems taking over free software that implement open protocols), so if you don't mind maybe we can go back to those? In this case, I am a backer of Mastodon. I also contributed to Pleroma and to the developers of Conversations (XMPP client). Nothing much (~100€/year), but I feel a lot better by contributing to them that I would ever feel by paying for Slack or Discord. The point is, it doesn't take a millionaire to do that. If companies took 5-10% of their IT budget to contribute to free alternatives of the closed software they use, perhaps they would quickly lessen their dependency on the closed software and free their resources.