[Samuel_Michon]

Ah, that explains a lot. It also shows the shadow side of open source software development: if the developers get bored, they can just up and leave. If all the devs do so, the project is dead but there’s no one there to call it. Users aren’t owed any explanation.

[ams6110]

And this differs from commercial/closed source software how? Google Reader come to mind, as one example?

[gaius]

In this case, the maintainers of a library they depended on were the ones that upped and left.