I thought this is a good news (at least to me not all that bad) since W3T is going commericial for a period of time, it need some more professional service/support. I thought that was the reason Rick decided to sold it out to Infopop to at least provide a better service to his customers and all friends support him for years at W3T.
At least I thought Rick is still the leader of this product and promised to keep working on it. It might change the name (althoght I don't think it's a good idea to rename to UBBThreads), but it will not be vanished. And I hope the quality, performance, and sincerity that Rick had brought will never be affected.