People don't pay for software because of some sort of editor version of the labor theory of value, they pay for software if its a differentiated product they ca

People don't pay for software because of some sort of editor version of the labor theory of value, they pay for software if its a differentiated product they can't find a cheaper alternative for. This is true for most games. There's no GNU Elden Ring yet. When it comes to Sublime these days it's hard to see why I'd pay for proprietary software, likely more than once when there's everything from Vim to Emacs, to VsCode and a dozen others.