Free as in beer

Chris Knadle wrote elsewhere in this forum:

    "If you were a developer of software and giving it away for free, 
imagine getting the complaint that "Why don't you just have a pacakage 
available for my RedHat 7.1 machine?  What's the deal?  Were you lazy?" 
  You would likely feel unappreciated and angry, and that the user did 
not understand the work they were asking for."

This would be a valid response if someone were giving away their Linux 
software for free.  But I don't see a lot of free software in Linux. It 
may be "free of copyright", but it's not cheap.  Somebody's getting my 
money. I'm paying a whole lot to support Linux and if I run into sloppy 
or thoughtless development, I want to be able to publicize my beefs 
about poor quality.

-- 
Reilly Burke