Where did this dumb meme come from? First of all, FoundationDB was not a service, so there was nothing to "shut down".

It's true we stopped selling the product to new customers, and we no longer offered free downloads under the community license. However those with existing licenses were able to continue running the product (and in fact some of them do to this very day).

What's more, the Community License was explicitly written to be valid in perpetuity, precisely to protect customers in this sort of instance.

Many people were disappointed by the way Apple handled the acquisition, including me incidentally, but your comment is mostly FUD. If you really were doing consulting for us, then I'd expect slightly better treatment of a former customer.