> I've heard before stories about solo closed source developers who suddenly and unexpectedly die, and they'd left the source code on an encrypted disk, and eve

> I've heard before stories about solo closed source developers who suddenly and unexpectedly die, and they'd left the source code on an encrypted disk, and even if their family gives some technical friend permission to try to retrieve it, turns out to be impossible because nobody knows the password. Open source, not an issue. I feel we need more code escrows for that reason. Keep it commercial till you die, fine, but let it live on afterwards.