And jeez what happened to it anyways? It actually used to be pretty decent back in the 98/XP/7 days :(
In those times there had been more than one popular free app that suddenly started installing crap on user's machines.
I guess he just didn't want to become attached to junkware being installed on people's machines.
I don't have the details but may they wanted to buy the source code from him and close it?