[jakelazaroff]

What if you're using a product and its community abandons it? This isn't a unique issue to products with commercial backers.

[kazinator]

Free software without a community is a thing; it's perfectly fine, and in fact better off without all the flies buzzing around it.

Proprietary software that is years past its support date, from a company that has not existed in years, yet still in use, is also a thing.

The one kind of entity that dies instantly when its backing goes away is a proprietary website.