The sad reality is that most people in open source want stuff for free and won't pay back and that sucks. So what are your thoughts on this? I am genuinely curious.
The second part as someone noted, in a comment of the parent comment that you are responding, that code is not the most important part here, how much do you agree with that statement? Since to me, If I can self host it using open source without using your cloud service but rather using amazon directly, I do think that might be cheaper than using the cloud service directly.