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Maybe because of the fact that they can't pay their staff, because nobody pays to use their product.
I paid for it ๐คท that's how devs can afford to keep working on their open source projects in the long run.
Wrong wording due to posting early in the morning, meant any independent work...
Winrar is... Not open source. Where did you get that from?
Early in the morning post, worded that wrong, but the sentiment is the same, open source or independent projects, the creators need something in return to keep working on them
That's fair enough!