I have to say this Lee Bamber posts waaaay more on the Dark Basic forum and gets more feedback and information from users cause of it making it a better product im a load of ways.
Now that we're on this topic: The OGRE engine (which is a free 3D graphics library that I use) has 10x better support than BRL - updates are posted periodically by the lead developer, and in addition to users / OGRE contributors answering questions promptly and comprehensively, etc., the main developer himself (Steve Streeting) will almost always help you out with a problem personally if necessary, or if the problem even remotely could be from a bug in the engine (he makes 10.25 posts per day on average). On top of all that, it's a free library and anything you get is purely donated time and effort!
Compare the support from a free library to BRL's support of products you pay for, and you'll see why I (and many, many others) have lost faith in BRL.