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If your product is worthwhile, you will be obsolete by then. Either a Free Software replacement will be developed, forcing you into doing what you should have done originally, or a larger competitor's closed product will kill yours so you might as well open and do what you should have done originally. Either way, your loss of reputation is massive and possibly catastrophic.
Or same scenario, but from another point of view, I make a bit of money for myself, other people see it and develop better/ Free versions, and I get to tell my parents and uni friends how I owned a company for a year or whatever :)
Of course, that is assuming that you're not planning to use some other dubious tactic such as process patents to prolong the agony.
grin One-Click-Linux .. hmm... ;)
JohnFlux