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This is a lot of negativity considering that when companies shut down products there are often many outcries of "just open source it so at least someone else can work on it if they want to". Shutting down like this should be applauded and encouraged.

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A lot of people have responded that way to what I wrote, but I didn't really mean it as negativity. I'm glad that they opened it before abandoning it, but I'm trying to emphasize that that is at best a first step for this project. Without someone willing to follow up by maintaining it, it's still dead. The tone of these announcements lately has not reflected that reality.

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