On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 11:03 -0500, Matthew Copple wrote:
On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 23:09 -0500, leenix wrote:
- If I buy a piece of software that is closed-source, the company
selling it to me has to support it. If something is wrong with it, they'll fix it, because that's where they make their money.
I picked this up off /. just in time for this discussion:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071008-when-google-acquisitions-go-wr...
In an ideal world, a discontinued product like this would open it's code with a FOSS license like the GPL. Unfortunately, even though google is a very FOSS friendly company, they don't want to have development continued on a competing product. It seems this is true even/especially if it's a product they now own. I've heard of several good products that ended this way.