Free fonts are just driving the price of fonts down, making them worth nothing. If that ever happens, we will cease to distribute our fonts, thus no new fonts. Free fonts and knock-off fonts are wrecking it for the people that take type design serious and try to make a living doing it. But, the fact is you can't make a living just designing fonts unless your Matthew Carter or Zuzana Licko. We spend hundreds of hours on making fonts and reworking them, there is no way we would ever give them away for free.
People complain about the price of fonts because they can get some for free.
But the free ones are usually ghetto, that is why they are free. I would hope that good designers could tell the difference. Usually the design sucks but our fonts look good. It's always exciting to see our fonts being used. We don't care who uses them, we just hope they use them creatively.