No software you use is free.
Building, running and maintaining software is work and therefore consumes resources and those resources have to come from somewhere.
UNIX comes from Bell Labs
Linux and Git come from the University of Helsinki, Transmeta, and Red Hat and VA Linux shareholders
Page-rank searching and chromium come from Google (Stanford and the NSA)
Firefox comes from the Mozilla Foundation
Signal from the Signal Foundation
Telegram is funded by Digital Fortress
Your "free" AI picture generator comes from the OpenAI foundation and Microsoft
Microsoft owns GitHub
Facebook comes from Meta
Android comes from Google
A lot of the software frameworks and libraries you use are written by programmers at universities, corporations, foundations, venture-capital funded start-ups, or who just pay for their own work and tech stack with a day job or welfare checks.
None of it is free. None of it. Grow up.
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