I remember there was heartbreaking posts years ago by an Australian author of a popular Delphi library. He basically said people loves his libraries but few wou

I remember there was heartbreaking posts years ago by an Australian author of a popular Delphi library. He basically said people loves his libraries but few would pay for them, so he gave up developing Delphi libraries all together. Over the years, what I learned is that individuals or companies do not like paying for technologies. They pay for products. In the case of technologies, companies rather pay for "boring" workflows. For instance, companies pay for control planes, so much so that Amazon's Open Search can be a billion-dollar business. On the other hand, few companies would pay for AWS AI's Key Phrase Extraction or Amazon Forecast, unless data processing is part of the service and is a huge pain for the companies.