Well good riddance. They have become ridiculously expensive

More CUDA Cores, more RTCores (better ray-tracing) and in case of the RTX 2060 Super, you're basically getting a cut-down RTX 2070 with 8GB RAM and a 256-bit bus. Cheers!

Well they were loosing a lot of money over the falling NAND prices

There's always a catch. Nothing is ever free

I operate a number of websites that are free for users, no catch. No advertising, no tracking, no nothing. There's not even any way to make voluntary donations.

Open source software?

you pay for open source through adopting the risk of running it, the cost of hosting it, and the time to understand how to maintain and use it.