As much as this is a bummer, it's actually a great example of the OSS model at work.
If this was a closed source solution, where the company got acquired and the product wasn't strategic, the solution would just be gone.
With OSS though, another company - for whom the solution is strategic - can step in and pick up the project.
New meme?
In DRM Apple, the iPhone unlocks you!
Not sure it has the same ring to it...
One thing not in the equation here: Hardware is cheap, but having that hardware managed isn't so cheap. When you scale from a couple of servers to a big bank of server, you have to pick up system admins to manage all of those boxen.
Less expensive than a programmer (some times) but certainly not free.
I do the same with
(as in no autoindent)
Used to drive me nuts before I learned that one.
"Who alone has reason to *lie himself out* of actuality? He who *suffers* from it." -- Friedrich Nietzsche