ThisPopularStandardIsInferior
UseThisInstead™

So, you managed to find an open source project that doesn’t suck, and actually does what you want. It has the features you want, and exports to the standards you want to.

Then, one day, you find out that support for the standard you used has been “dropped”, because it’s “inferior” compared to some hippy new thing that sprang out of loonland last month. It doesn’t matter if it was a popular-as-hell standard and users needed it. If we say it’s inferior, it’s inferior, so you don’t get support for that anymore.

For more info, see Handbrake dropping Divx Avi support (no, seriously), LibreOffice having Docx support as a low priority thing, and the whole “stop using the popular MP4 and use WebM instead” campaign. Sigh

Proprietary software, of course, solves this through the law of supply and demand. If a proprietary software company removes functionality people want, the company that makes it won’t get paid. But paying for software is lame, right freetards?