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This theory assumed things that are useful could always gather enough interest, an exception was demonstrated by openssl several years ago, and also https://xkcd.com/2347/

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I see this said a lot about openssl due to heartbleed but there's not that much to maintain in established crypto libraries and openssl is certainly maintained if not basically omnipotent in security libs.

I wouldn't say anything nice about the UX that resulted after a few decades or building for embedded but for the most part it does what it claims on the box.

That could absolutely happen. But this scenario is no more the fault of the original author than everyone else that had a choice in using that software, but also refusing to maintain it themselves.

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