It's not bad that they are asking for money. Although the current norm is to give away the binaries for free, I think they can and should charge for the service

It's not bad that they are asking for money. Although the current norm is to give away the binaries for free, I think they can and should charge for the service they are providing by building the binaries and making them available for download. Especially since it's a very polished distro. But the wording on the blog post appears a little arrogant since it is not an entire OS built from scratch.