The fundamental tradeoff a lot of consumer software seems to be based on these days is they will offer you stuff you want (i.e. be feature rich), in exchange for stuff you don't (i.e. steal your data, show you ads). Whereas a FOSS author is a lot more likely to take the "do one thing well" approach.
What I settled for was an approach where I try to minimize the use of commercial software in my personal life, but in my business if we need what the commercial software does we'll just license it and get on with things. For the most part in my life I don't really NEED some feature or another, it might be nice to have, but with any type of commercial software or service there's always going to be the risk that they'll push some update that shoves ads down my throat or introduces microtransactions or something, so I'm OK to just go without and use the FOSS alternative.
In business though, we'll be at a competitive disadvantage if I force everyone to use only FOSS. There are many times where I've looked at the open source equivalent of some big SaaS and it was just going to be more work to set up and maintain a less featureful open source equivalent. So, I'm more inclined to do a deal with the devil because at the end of the day our time and resources need to be focused elsewhere.
What I settled for was an approach where I try to minimize the use of commercial software in my personal life, but in my business if we need what the commercial software does we'll just license it and get on with things. For the most part in my life I don't really NEED some feature or another, it might be nice to have, but with any type of commercial software or service there's always going to be the risk that they'll push some update that shoves ads down my throat or introduces microtransactions or something, so I'm OK to just go without and use the FOSS alternative.
In business though, we'll be at a competitive disadvantage if I force everyone to use only FOSS. There are many times where I've looked at the open source equivalent of some big SaaS and it was just going to be more work to set up and maintain a less featureful open source equivalent. So, I'm more inclined to do a deal with the devil because at the end of the day our time and resources need to be focused elsewhere.