Sometimes I'd rather buy and use something costing money, from a vendor that only sells it himself, than some free stuff offered that I think its crap.
A turd of a software, even if libre, is still a turd. I won't celebrate it just because someone offers it for free.
I'm not talking in general: there's excellent libre software, and excellent proprietary software too.
But there's specific libre software that's just plain crap for most use cases compared to its proprietary alternative (e.g consider a high-end DAW and the libre DAWs. Or a high-end NLE and the libre NLEs).
And some other libre software is mighty fine in itself, but lacks other characteristics that some proprietary software has (from 24/7 paid on the phone support, to quality documentation, to working with your preffered OS or your other infrastructure, etc). So some people can make good use of it, while for others it's not suitable.
A turd of a software, even if libre, is still a turd. I won't celebrate it just because someone offers it for free.
I'm not talking in general: there's excellent libre software, and excellent proprietary software too.
But there's specific libre software that's just plain crap for most use cases compared to its proprietary alternative (e.g consider a high-end DAW and the libre DAWs. Or a high-end NLE and the libre NLEs).
And some other libre software is mighty fine in itself, but lacks other characteristics that some proprietary software has (from 24/7 paid on the phone support, to quality documentation, to working with your preffered OS or your other infrastructure, etc). So some people can make good use of it, while for others it's not suitable.