Paying for software

  1. Businesses need money to make the software in the first place.
  2. Software is complicated, and it breaks. And when it does, you probably want to be the sort of user that gets focused, fast and useful help. And you want ongoing upgrades that make it better still.
  3. It costs money to market the software, to tell you about it (that’s only .5, but still)

https://seths.blog/2018/06/on-paying-for-software/