I think he means free as in open source, rather than free as in freeware. In which the worst case scenario is that you are stuck with the last open-source versi

I think he means free as in open source, rather than free as in freeware. In which the worst case scenario is that you are stuck with the last open-source version, but at least you retain full control over your fork of the code and can add features and bug fixes as you see fit.