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by oefrha 2154 days ago
Plus, future updates have all the benefit of open-source software.

This part is particularly strange, because a major benefit of open source software is other people can fork and keep the project alive if the company goes out of business or loses interest. I myself have rescued abandoned projects before and just released a new version for one today. This benefit is clearly missing for this product, at least I can't see any way to revive it to keep commercial use alive without a license change.