Comment by tonyedgecombe
5 hours ago
>Naturally, I first started looking for permissively licensed libraries, which could be used free of charge and without additional license requirements.
There is a lot of work in a good PDF library, expecting to get it for free feels unreasonable to me.
Given reality, it would be silly for a consumer not to look for the cheapest option available, that doesn't have vendor lock-in.
That's said, for many niche products you are correct.