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Comment by zokier | Hacker News Reader

I'm kinda confused what constitutes as tiny and experimental here if it includes items like Blender, GIMP, Reaper, VSCode and other big names

They really meant 'or' not 'and' - free or tiny or experimental.

So it's like the poster in the mythical workshop:

    Repairs can be fast, cheap or proper.
    You can only choose two of the above.

In this case, our choices range from 1 to 3 it seems.

Perhaps, but REAPER is none of those things.

The description says "free and paid tiers" so I guess it was free when it was added to this list.

REAPER is free for 60 days, but they don't enforce the cost after that period. Possibly, the article writer believes that to be "free".

I think it's meant as "or", rather than "and"