Because I want them to continue to exist. They provide a service, not just a software product. This makes me even more confident they will be able to continue providing that service for many years.
I haven't tried to find out from their finances, but this move would worry me; I'd assume that previously they were independent and profitable, and that now they're on a deadline to generate a lot of return on investment and most likely future is to be acquired in a single digit number of years and then absolutely ruined by the acquiring company (because that seems to be what acquiring companies do - buy things and wreck them).
