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Are there any other projects of such nature?
by philippnagel 9y ago
Are there any other projects of such nature?
- work_account 9y agoNot quite the same, but the time zone database was voluntarily maintained by some random guy for decades, until he got a lawsuit in 2011 and ICANN eventually took over. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3081281 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3081281 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database#2011_lawsuit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database#2011_lawsuit
- mprovost 9y agoncurses and the terminfo database (which ship with pretty much every Unix-like) are maintained by one person, Thomas E. Dickey.