Panic on The Future of Unison

Panic blogged today on The Future of Unison (their Usenet client), and showed why they are classy and do what’s right.

The new version is:

• New, with bug fixes and updates
• Free for all users
• Unsupported, as it goes into the sunset

So they update an app that’s basically at End Of Life, and instead of letting it wallow, broken on a new OS version, they make sure it’s up, running, useful, and then make it free so anyone who would like to use it, can, as they’re not selling it anymore. The only thing that they haven’t done is open source the code, which they address in the comments saying it’s not practical (probably shared libraries with other products or something like that), but if issues arrive in the future, they’ll consider it.

Classy.