Sounds like D-Link is telling people to buy Synology.

That’s such a nonsensical statement, I don’t even think you know what it means.

Government protection of technology (patents, copyright) will always hinder them.

Good luck inventing or creating something that a person or corporation with more money won’t immediately copy and then push you out of the market.

Patents and copyright, as originally conceived, are the lower classes only chance to compete.

They don’t have a solid catalog anymore, they quit the company that owns the publishing rights to the catalog.

These aren’t the developers quitting. It’s the publisher’s staff. Like If the employees of Republic Records all quit, Universal Music Group would still have the right to publish Taylor Swift’s or John Legend’s next album.

Sales must have been so low that a refund was a lot cheaper than a class-action lawsuit.