One thing we now had come up three times during the past year was commercial closed source software we had in our eye or were using, where the company was bough

One thing we now had come up three times during the past year was commercial closed source software we had in our eye or were using, where the company was bought, went bust or whatever and took their product down, ceased to do updates etc. With open source software you at least could pick up the torch yourself or pay someone who does. A particularly bad case involves the software running on our core switches, which we now need to swap out because there won't be any updates soon. Which is why we want everything to be open source if possible.