Modifying the installer for MSDE in such a way that it now refuses to install on Win98 is a little bit more serious than just ceasing to *support* a given...

I disagree. If a closed-source product has a bug, you can report it to the company that developed it and *hope* it gets fixed in a future release.

If an open-source...

One DISadvantage of closed-source is that the company that develops the product may change it in such a way that they can extract more money from you, and there's nothing...