> Commercial software as it existed 20 or 30 years ago is a dead business. Free reigns supreme. What nonsense. Go into any business and you will find every sin

> Commercial software as it existed 20 or 30 years ago is a dead business. Free reigns supreme. What nonsense. Go into any business and you will find every single piece of software they use is bought and paid for with bells on. The 'Free World' you speak of is only there to get you, an individual, used to using the software so that businesses are made to purchase it. In the old days we called this 'demo' or 'shareware'. Now its 'free' or 'personal' tier subscription. Go and ask any designer if their copy of Adobe Creative Cloud, 3d studio Max, or AutoCAD is free. Any office worker if Micsrosoft Office(including Teams and Sharedpoint etc) or even google docs for business. Majority of developers are running paid versions of Jetbrains. Running an online shop? Chances are you are paying for shopify software, or something like Zoho to manage your customers and orders. 'Free' as you put it is very much only in the online individual consumer world, a very small part of the software world. The commercial software market is more alive and expensive than it has ever been.