I agree there's something to that. But I've also seen first hand that actually, yes, a whole fuck of a lot of people just want something for nothing and will h

I agree there's something to that. But I've also seen first hand that actually, yes, a whole fuck of a lot of people just want something for nothing and will happily tell you how great your thing is but only when they don't have to pay anything for it. And even once you do go free and open "to save it from the filing cabinet," any option you leave open to contributing to the maintenance of it long term even will be largely ignored. Even Mozilla continues to exist more because of the search engine licensing money than actual contributions to the effort.