As an individual I would, if of course the payment was for appropriate value.
The concern I'm talking about is ending up with an entirely orphaned product, which is pretty much what this guy is potentially doing since he's not allowing for the possibility of a community developing.
This is particularly bad since his product is an embedded .NET database. The .NET ecosystem is evolving at a healthy rate (compare to the RSN Java 7), especially WRT databases and I suspect it won't continue to be useful after very long. That was also an issue with CityDesk, which is an HTML etc. editor/lightweight CMS, since that is evolving at a healthy clip as well.
The concern I'm talking about is ending up with an entirely orphaned product, which is pretty much what this guy is potentially doing since he's not allowing for the possibility of a community developing.
This is particularly bad since his product is an embedded .NET database. The .NET ecosystem is evolving at a healthy rate (compare to the RSN Java 7), especially WRT databases and I suspect it won't continue to be useful after very long. That was also an issue with CityDesk, which is an HTML etc. editor/lightweight CMS, since that is evolving at a healthy clip as well.