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I wish I felt your optimism that opensource projects just chug along with no monetary motivation/investment :) Keeping apps updated and the platform secure is a lot of work. I am also reading in other places that kenton will keep oasis running pretty much single handedly. All this seems like a lot of responsibility (might not be much work though).

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I suspect you may be overestimating how many people have kept Oasis running so far! Sandstorm.io never had a large group of employees, and managing Oasis has never been a large part of what they were doing. Ergo, I suspect I'd be accurate in saying Kenton was already keeping Oasis running pretty much singlehandedly. :) He has confirmed he will still have a couple other people able to tend to it if he is unavailable as well.

Indeed, I've been essentially single-handedly running Oasis since it launched (there was a mechanism for others to help if I wasn't available, but in practice it was only ever used once or twice).

Oasis upkeep requires only a few minutes of my time each week, and that's mostly for the purpose of pushing an update.

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