I am surprised. The system I use is someone else work. I've brought nothing, got it for free.

Demanding users I see looks like spoiled web users. They expect free services, they pay with privacy or are clever enough not to pay (adblock). But Free Software does not sell their data.

Or they compare to Microsoft Windows and Apple macOS, quite profitable companies. But Free Software does not acquire telemetry, does not sell hardware or bundled services. There are some private companies (Red Hat, Canonical, Mozilla), their difference from my industry (web development) is they ship source.