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Red Hat, Canonical, Docker, Suse, and many others give software away for free, and make money from that same software.

They do that by selling support, or additional non-free features bundled into an "enterprise edition" (at least in the case of Docker). I don't think that's something Feross or other open source maintainers are interested in doing.

Fair point, but it's inaccurate to say we can't make money off software we give away for free.

I'm not saying that we are literally unable to make money off of free software. We can and donations / advertising / GPL license exemptions / crowd-funding all work to some degree.

My point was that even though the "don't give it away for free" model works, we should still try to improve the profitability of funding models where we can give software away for free.

All those companies offer enterprise editions and service-based support; what does standardjs offer that's worth paying for?

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