It's ok, fact is I wouldn't trust them to walk my dog, but I don't have a dog anyhow.
The cat is out of the hat on truePlay, it is already freely distributable, that can't be stopped now even if they wanted to.
As far as trueSpace and trueServe, sure they can kill the downloads and legal availability to new installs, but I doubt they will stop trueServe for a few reasons, one, it isn't tied to lightworks like trueSpace modelside is, and two, just as MS has kept Creature House Expression available to this day as a free download at MS all these years after they devoured Creature House, they would benefit a great deal from the sales leads they would gain from the questionnaires they attach to the free downloads, just as they still do for Creature House Expression at the Microsoft site.
But even if MS pulls the plug on all future trueServe downloads, there are still probably a million or more downloads of it that occured this year out of the estimated 5 million downloads from the same free downloads page for trueSpace. I figure 1 in 5 is likely, could be more.
Even so, if MS kills trueServe downloads, I and many others will simply set up our own servers running it and charge clients monthly for the portals with customized content branded for their business, and remain free to everyone who is there for pleasure and not to simply make a buck.
Then there is also advertising to consider... in-world advertising. If you have, for instance, a trueServer online with 5 businesses in it each with 5 portals, and those 25 portals collectively represent fairly steady traffic, you have a marketable advertising venue there as well for in-world Billboards or marquees.
Then there is the content sales, they can be monthly or one-time, it's up to each server host. Then there is maintenance options, also sellable as add-ons. Etc, Etc. (EDIT: I left out hosted EVENTS here earlier, but that is a
huge source of potential income for these portals.)
They may seek to limit the spread of trueServe, but they cannot limit the spread of servers and portals serving it provided the install was obtained legally from the proper authoirized distribution point, ie: caligari... and mine was, as was another possible million more.
So I am not worried about their future moves, I am only hoping they keep it all alive for the sake of the Community here and it's future global growth. If they don't, we will still use what we can in the ways we can, and that is fine anyway.