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  • I mean in your example it wasnt the software that was bought, but the website no? If most of the project revolves around a single site that uses the software then this is inevitable.

    If nobody is willing to take over the maintenance of a fork, then thats just what happens. Its not like there is a deadline to this tho. Anyone could still just fork the codebase of a project that went to shit 10 years ago and start maintaining it again.

    If people are willing to work on a project for free thats cool, but without any donations it will often be too much. To get donations you need a central, well known platform that represents the entire project. This is hard to do for a fork, because potential donators would initially have to trust complete strangers to not just abandon the project again right away.
















  • The main Syncthing app for android has stopped development because of shit like this.

    You just cant build actually useful apps that use low level access anymore without google kicking you out of the play store. But its becoming a OS level problem too. Lots of things are just not possible anymore without rooting. If someone doesnt hard fork the AOSP at some point soon, the future will look very grim even for custom roms because reversing all the damage google is causing is way too much work for a couple of volunteer devs.