A company can throw so much manpower at the project that by adding more features and marketing the proprietary fork heavily (Extend) users start moving from the free fork to the proprietary one, and when the users are gone, the devs leave also. We end up with the original project dead(Extinguish).

What DAW are you planning to use?

Do you live in a warm country?

Basically an exponential function.

Linnutee in Estonian, literally “bird’s path” because of the birds migrating south for the winter using it for navigation.