If nobody is maintaining it, how can you tell it doesn't currently have any important bugs? Remember that the worst bugs in the last couple of years have been in the code that nobody was looking at.
I agree that might be a good choice for a more modern alternative, but it still doesn't solve the problem of existing manpages. You could cleverly upconvert on the fly of course, but that's basically the same thing as…
Well... manpages are still very much alive and widely used, and they're so prevalent that moving to something new is a nearly ridiculous requirement. Half the things with manpages in the wild are probably themselves not…
I'd limit it to FOSS that people don't pay for (directly or indirectly). When money is changing hands with the expectation that software is maintained in good working order, you won't see abandonment like this. But when…
In which the fundamental problem with not paying for your open source software is revealed.
If nobody is maintaining it, how can you tell it doesn't currently have any important bugs? Remember that the worst bugs in the last couple of years have been in the code that nobody was looking at.
I agree that might be a good choice for a more modern alternative, but it still doesn't solve the problem of existing manpages. You could cleverly upconvert on the fly of course, but that's basically the same thing as…
Well... manpages are still very much alive and widely used, and they're so prevalent that moving to something new is a nearly ridiculous requirement. Half the things with manpages in the wild are probably themselves not…
I'd limit it to FOSS that people don't pay for (directly or indirectly). When money is changing hands with the expectation that software is maintained in good working order, you won't see abandonment like this. But when…
In which the fundamental problem with not paying for your open source software is revealed.