Re: unlikely that the commercial entity will vanish overnight.
The comparison made by the author fails to convince, Heartbleed announcement came with a set of patches, Solarwinds issued the first set of patches in 2 days after the announcement and the 2nd set of patches in 11 days. It looks like the open source model provided better response times than a commercial entity.
It is rather unlikely that a popular open-source product will vanish overnight: if the developers leave, there will be others willing to carry on. Commercial support for popular open-source products is not a problem either. However, it is very real to imagine a commercial product being discontinued and withdrawn overnight or on short notice without replacement options, it is not even that unusual.
One can only hope that when a product is discontinued, the company open sources it so that it can get a second, hopefully more successful life.
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