Hacker News Reader

One of the reasons why OBS got so popular compared to Xsplit is that it is free.

Interesting – Xsplit is reported as a $20K sponsor on the website: https://opencollective.com/obsproject#section-budget

(Scroll down to see the list of contributors.)

No better publicity than on your competitor’s website?

The OBS team has a very friendly relationship with XSplit folks, they're nice people and strive for a better product for all users.

Well, yes, it's Free Software, but at this quality level it is be totally fine to sell the ready-to-run binary at a cost.