I believe it was a perfectly logical and most importantly fair decision to make. Rather than having taken the investment and not really being passionate about the work. However the alternate course of action that they may take are: 1) Sell it to someone who would like to buy it and is passionate about it for the right reasons (not money) 2)Open Source the codebase 3) Simply write a post about the architecture

What I mean to simply say is "hand over your legacy". Don't just leave it to be forgotten.