&gt;Google has been a complete imbecile when it comes to these things.<p>Why? A company the size of Google needs to prune these kinds of side-branches of their business so they don&#x27;t become bloated and unwieldy.<p>&gt;They could have a division which puts these projects on life support or hell sells them to another company or even open source some of their products and let the community support them!<p>There may be reasons you can&#x27;t open source it. We wrote a AS3&#x2F;Flex to JS&#x2F;HTML compiler. I looked at open-sourcing it because it&#x27;s cool, but right now it&#x27;s totally tied to our build-chain and tailored for our specific purpose. It would take a lot of effort to properly put it out there, and if you don&#x27;t do that work, people get pissed and complain.<p>&gt;If i&#x27;ve been burnt by google shutting down something i&#x27;ve made part of my workflow or rely on<p>Yeah, but it isn&#x27;t just google. What&#x27;s the alternative? A scrappy start-up that will shut-down when acquired? Everything is a risk now.<p>We use fogbugz extensively. Will it be here next year? Probably, but who knows. Maybe it&#x27;ll be acquired by Atlassian and shut-down tomorrow.