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by orbital-decay 1366 days ago
With a non-gatekept solution you have two options typically unavailable for proprietary software:

- freeze the versions, keeping using it until you find a better one. Practice shows it can be done for quite a while in many cases (years if needed)

- migrate to the different similar software, or hire an expert to do it for you

There were too many cases of wonderful proprietary products suddenly becoming ransomware overnight, holding your data hostage.