[repolfx]

This is true of many, many open source projects and has always been true. My first Linux was SuSE. Had to pay for it. The source was there but if you wanted Linux in an easy to use form, not so much. It was no big deal to pay because I knew it was funding the open source work. My first smartphone was an Android phone. I've paid for them, sometimes mostly to get software upgrades, because the pure open source builds were not as good. I buy a Mac even though I mostly use open source apps available for Linux and even though parts of macOS are themselves open source, because I want the extra proprietary features.

In the end most open source software I use is ultimately funded by better paid-for versions that people opt in to. The sky doesn't fall.