I am happy to pay for software.
In economics both the worker and customer benefits. If you need something done and you have people waiting then there is no time to wait fixing or developing a system.
The free market provides solutions such as a more reliable virtualize and office suite over free alternatives. Namely MS office and vmware workstation over Libre office and virtualbox. Windows just works.
My comment just made a few red in the face but it's true. I have money. I need things to work without workarounds. I need a resume formatted properly on someone elses comouter. I need Windows 10 and 6 different vms to just work without crashing. Clouds are great too.
If these were all sooo horrible and anti user then the free market would have bankrupted them. You are denying a programmer financial incentive to serve his customers and me and my boss to buy software which pays for itself.