[Mithaldu]

They don't deserve any thanks for remorselessly fucking over their users.

[untog]

Their users don't deserve anything as they were enjoying the use of a free product. They've given everyone a good amount of notice to move on.

[Mithaldu]

Without their users they wouldn't have gotten this nice cushy acquihire.

[untog]

So, everybody wins. The users got a free product for a few years, Sunrise got acquihired.

[Mithaldu]

"Everybody wins" would involve everyone walking away with equal or more than they had at the time of parting, which could be done by opening the source of the product instead of letting it die of bitrot.

[untog]

Sunrise walked away with an acquihire, users walked away with several years of free service of an app they liked.

I get what you're saying here, but the Sunrise team owe their users nothing.

[Mithaldu]

They owed them the honesty of saying at the start:

"We never intend to make this an actual product. This is only here to get us attention and hired. If you use this, be aware we'll kill it as soon as anyone hires us."