Things like this are bound to happen, as long as people have to pay their bills and they don't get as much retribution as they would like for their work. If the original authors of the plugins that Kite took over had got a dollar from each user, maybe they would have thought it twice before handing over their creations to a company with dubious purposes.

I have been saying it for a long time: we need better and more flexible software markets, and as developers, we should appreciate the work and time of fellow developers and as a matter of principle try to compensate them.