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by the_mitsuhiko 3593 days ago
Because it helps the ecosystem?
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mikemcquaid 3593 days ago
The main self-interested reason: we use analytics to judge what packages and options to remove. If no-one using analytics uses software: next time it requires non-trivial maintenance work it will likely be removed rather than fixed.
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Karunamon 3592 days ago
That's even worse - if I had a penny for every time a useful, but unpopular thing was shut down, I could fund my own startup!
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mikemcquaid 3592 days ago
And we could fund our open-source project to maintain these things. Sadly neither of us have these pennies ;)
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