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by valuearb 2247 days ago
What’s wrong with charging for a valuable service?
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If something is valuable, it shouldn't be restricted those with money. We aren't stopping people for charging for a service like that, we just want to offer what those paid services offer, but for free.
You can’t offer what paid services offer, because you don’t have the revenue stream to support it.

And everyone has money. Their agreement to spend some on your product establishes its value. If it has to be free for them to use it, they are saying your product lacks value.

We can offer what paid services offer, because what they currently offer is not as complicated as they make it look like. Of course we don't have the same infrastructure, fancy offices and 200 employees, but content wise we can produce the same content + add content that isn't our and made available under CC license for example.

Not everyone has money no.

Regarding your last point, maybe you should check a website called wikipedia for example :)

Are you... upset? that they're releasing a free meditation app? What's the problem here / what's your actual point?
I don’t like to see developers go unrewarded for useful work.
The fact the developers voluntarily donate their labour establishes that they feel adequately rewarded.
People with a limited budget don't use it, which makes the service less useful.
Correction: It’s not valuable enough for people on a limited budget.
A service you can't use is useless to you. So a service fewer people can use is less useful.

Even if everyone prioritized the service above other things, the things they forego become useless to them – a side effect attributable to charging money.

The benefit they could derive is perhaps the same. However, they cannot prioritize it the same way as others with a higher budget.
Those in bad mental health benefit from meditation more than others and poorer people tend to be in worse mental health. So those with a limited budget actually derive more benefit.