[afavour]

> Sure the source can be reused, but you think another collection of individuals will come along and host the project in the same way?

Look at OpenOffice vs LibreOffice. MySQL vs MariaDB. It can happen. At the very least it's more likely than if you're using commercial software.

[davidjgraph]

As I recall the majority of the OpenOffice team went to Libre, that isn't the point I'm making here.

[mixmastamyk]

The team can take their buy out, work for ~two years then quit. And be more likely to work on the still floss version after that.

VMs are a thing as well. These are not insurmountable issues.