Backwards compatibility buys enterprise licenses. These are for profit corporations - even their free tier has you somewhere in a marketing funnel or a revenue

Backwards compatibility buys enterprise licenses. These are for profit corporations - even their free tier has you somewhere in a marketing funnel or a revenue structure. Today they have a “good” CEO, tomorrow it could be another Steve Ballmer in charge. The bottom line is, one shouldn’t rely on a single corp for something that seems like “critical infrastructure”.