I have to say this all sounds great, there is a lot of possibility to here and I am happy to have confirmed that once again the admins are way ahead of us in terms of planning.
I do think however that a third option should be investigated which is hiring programmers to build a better FLserver. If we can raise the money for a new server extremely easily I think we can raise money to implement this. I dont know about hiring anyone full time but I think it would be possible to hire people. Some of you may be saying it cant be done without the source code which is actually not true. Programs can be reverse engineered without the source code, it is just much harder. In fact I have heard of a project where a group of programmers are reverse engineering Windows XP to make an open source version. The issue that we start to get into here though is legality. With this I have no expertise but as long as we dont sell the software I doubt any legal action will be taken if any laws have been broken. So yeah, what do you think of that, or at least looking into it?