Comment by unleaded

I would say the opposite happened but maybe it depends on how long you've been using Linux or been in those types of circles. Throughout the 90s and maybe until the late 2000s seemingly all free Windows software was released as shareware or otherwise closed source. Now open source utilities are a lot more common as people became more aware of open source, although there still remains some freeware that only makes money from donations where the authors still refuse to release the source for some reason (e.g. Nirsoft tools)