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At risk of squabbling over semantics, "Free software", as used in the article, is orthoganal to open-source software. If the source code for these websites were

by gcr 15y ago

At risk of squabbling over semantics, "Free software", as used in the article, is orthoganal to open-source software. If the source code for these websites were released, even at the end, there would be no issue. Case in point: Etherpad released their source code just before taking their wave dive, starting Piratepad et al.

jarek 15y ago
While you are correct that the article takes some liberties with its use of "free software", having the source code won't help you much with applications that need beefier hosting to truly be useful.