The development tool vendors are not doing a good job supporting mature user communities. Tools and libraries are often cancelled or abandoned after 2 or 3 years of life. I did not want Object Outline to be another example of company abandoning a large user community. I believe that in the long run, the user community is always better off with tools and libraries that adhere to consensus based open standards. Without standards, vendors manipulate the technology to induce behavior that benefits them at the expense of their own customers.
Standards return control to where it belongs, customers.
There are many ways to establish good standards. Among them is to widely distribute open source software implementations. Perl is a good example of this strategy. I am tired of doing the business part of Object Outline. Handling the orders, designing the advertising, managing the credit card company, etc are jobs that I hate doing.