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I think it's more because there's a lot of software that's too cheap to charge for, but has too many edge cases for the average programmer to get right.

Logging is a perfect example, server-side logs are all handled by free frameworks (too cheap to charge for, but everyone needs it), but client-side is often handled by companies (just complex enough to make money on).

The former is often handled by LBIPs like Eric, where-as the latter is either written in house (usually badly) or you get something like Sentry.



The beauty of software is only one person needs to get it right and then we all can use it.




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