I don't think it's strange that to many people, some service are useful but not always seen as useful enough to commit to X dollars per month, especially if the

I don't think it's strange that to many people, some service are useful but not always seen as useful enough to commit to X dollars per month, especially if their own use is for free stuff as well. Also, many businesses are not setup to make multiple small(ish) payments to library maintainers even though imho, this should become a normal pattern. Imagine if all the people who used OpenSSL, PHP, Linux, etc. x 1000 were paid even $1 per month per business use. I think there is a whole PhD around this since there are psychological factors to people charging up-front vs freemium with upgrades etc. Sometimes if I am trying to find a service to do X and find that one charges, I might immediately reject even if it is really amazing and would save me that much in time. I guess if it was easy, there wouldn't be a problem!