Yeah, the downvotes were expected. Developers do not like being called out for the miserly and self-destructive bunch that we are.

I was building an advance IDE for C and gave up when I realised that no one would buy it because "lol vim is free". Finally, I am gathering the strength to resume working on it, but only for personal use and with no expectation of selling more than 100 copies.

What bothers me the most is the hypocrisy. It's okay to make money by showing predatory ads to unsuspecting populace, but not by selling useful tools. No, that is immoral.