On Tuesday, February 7, 2017 at 9:03:40 PM UTC+3, wrote:
Dan
I am not a computer geek so am a bit concerned that xcsoar has no parents....
Did you/do you have any problems with support ?

If you'd ever seen the inside of any commercial software company, you wouldn't ask such a question!!

Anything that is developed and supported by its own users will very quickly attain higher quality than something that is pushed out the door when some manager says it's time, and assigns the programmers to a new project.

Companies die or simply abandon products more regularly and with far more finality than user-supported projects.

Only the very largest companies can afford the expense of doing things better than user communities -- Microsoft, Apple, Intel, Google. And even they lean to a very large degree on community-supported projects.