Proprietary sw: once discontinued for one reason or another, you're pretty much fucked up OSS: You can still manage to sorta make it work I guess my point is,

Proprietary sw: once discontinued for one reason or another, you're pretty much fucked up OSS: You can still manage to sorta make it work I guess my point is, if the software GP talked about was proprietary, he wouldn't have known what was wrong in the first place.