[realharo]

>I'm saying Dev culture in not paying for tools is bad.

I don't know, JetBrains seems really popular to me. Off the top of my head, I know of a few commercial tools that seem to be doing ok? (judging by their continued existence), e.g. https://blackfire.io, http://undo.io, https://scrutinizer-ci.com, etc.

Of course, a non-open-source programming language doesn't stand a chance today because of the massive network effects required for success, but that seems natural (people want to use what they already know, what they know is often what they learned in school or on their side projects).

[ggame]

I think the point I was alluding to is that the market should be much bigger than it is. And it would be great if open source contributors could make money from their work.