Generally speaking, commercial software gives more guarantees than free software, because free software writers have no obligations. Of course, there's no absol

Generally speaking, commercial software gives more guarantees than free software, because free software writers have no obligations. Of course, there's no absolute certainty. Right now I'm stuck with an old version of a certain software, because the extensions are free, but some of the authors are not upgrading them anymore. If the extensions were commercial, I'd be happily paying, if that would give the extensions a longer lifetime. Having somebody working on an extension at least a part of their time, because it represents a source of income, surely makes a difference. Again, VSC's Ruby extension sucks big time. If there was a company behind, with a paid developer, like in IntelliJ's case, it would certainly have a different quality.