Botting runescape is how many of us got into programming. Long live botting. If you want to do it, do it on an account that doesnt effect the economy.
Once the original creator moved on from ownership, the new owner also had a business with Runescape botting.
The story is that it didn't go well for the maintainers of Autohotkey until another person took the reigns.
The direction RSBot took under his leadership was less than ideal. I lamented the loss of RSBot 2 and local scripts. The subsequent versions, dependent on the SDN, were never as good.