I disagree with the argument that developers don't pay for things. Yes, there's a huge open source culture where people can have access to free code on GitHub. However, there's a huge market of paid products that developers will purchase. There are many examples out there like Tailwind, Chakra UI, Envato, etc.

> not developers, look at GitHub - it's all for free

I do use the free stuff (GitHub, VS Code, etc).

And I also pay for NCrunch, Wallaby, RubyMine, Rider, GoLand, PyCharm, FastMail, PCloud, and more.

Most of the stuff I pay for has free equivalents (and yes, I know JetBrains have an all-products subscription rather than separate Ruby, .Net, Go, and Python, but I have reasons).

Yes - developers. Look how many of them pay for Digital Ocean/AWS to host their projects instead of rolling their own servers.

Yeah, but that also serves the purpose of making us encourage our workplaces to use GitHub, and they pay for it.

I pay for GitHub