Well regardless, I personally believe we will be able run and install Sonar on new PCs far into the future regardless of the feelings  toward Gibson.   The activation engine on Sonar is likely a VERY small part of any server community and being from IT, whenever servers are migrated and/or decommissioned, there is usually a plan to handle the applications that exist and still have active users so unless Gibson goes belly up totally and their servers are repossessed overnight, I believe that any IT shop worth anything will handle the activation software properly should the servers need to consolidate or migrate