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		Samuel_Michon on May 31, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Camino browser reaches its end 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 on May 31, 2013 | [–]

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

gaius on May 31, 2013 | [–]

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

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