[crumpets]

There are tons of tools in the open source world that are incredible and free. The assumption that you have to spend money on tools does not apply to software at all unless you are working in a proprietary ecosystem.

What is the paid version of grep/ripgrep that works better?

[pjmlp]

Do you expect to be paid for your work or also offer it for free and live from donations?

[thejosh]

>good tools are worth paying for

Not ALL tools need to be paid for.

[pjmlp]

Not all WORK needs to be paid for.

[eitland]

That is correct. Trivial example:

If I say I'll do some work for free the we can assume you don't need to pay for it.

[pjmlp]

Just like I should not complain if you decide not to keep doing it, when the need to pay for bills arises or I happened to abuse from your goodwill.