As consumers, we are not responsible for how a company intends to make money. If I buy something, I own it. If I license it, I explicitly know that it isn't min

As consumers, we are not responsible for how a company intends to make money. If I buy something, I own it. If I license it, I explicitly know that it isn't mine. He bought it, its his. They don't get to say "this doesn't fit our business plan." Some time ago I bought an iPhone, went though the contract, and then changed carriers. I put the iPhone in a box, where it remained for the next year. One day I needed an iPhone to do some market research for a product I was making. "But wait, I _have_ an iPhone," I remembered. I took it out of the box and it didn't work; it was deactivated, because I'm not longer an AT&T customer. I had to spend the next four hours of my life jail breaking that phone -- I still needed it -- to make the iPhone I have "sort of" mine. This is after paying for the device and for a year of service under contract. After all that money spent, I still needed permission from two separate companies to use something that was mine in the first place. So after going though that experience, I don't really care if a company (startup or not) goes bust, come up with a better business model, not my problem. If I payed my money for it, I will do whatever I want with it.