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Originally Posted by fjtorres
And that means a *corporate* commitment to the platform. The computer industry is littered with the corpses of companies to whom "Open source" meant simply "No user support".
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Sadly the same is for a great number of commercial projects that closed down leaving existing licence holders high and dry (a recent one for me was the "MainActor" NLVE program).
At least with OpenSource applications you do have a chance to continue if the author decides to halt development, more so than if a commercial vendor halts.
Paul.