"Commercial apps don't do things like that." They do. Companies go out of business. They kill products. I went through it in a couple situations when I worked

"Commercial apps don't do things like that." They do. Companies go out of business. They kill products. I went through it in a couple situations when I worked in IT. In one instance, a vendor was sued by another company and had to immediately pull distribution of an app that we depended on, and the alternative was unusable. That particular example also provides an example of the value of OSS: the app was open source, so we were able to keep using it and tweaking it for years.