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by valuearb 2249 days ago
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.

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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.