I disagree. Theano is in widespread use and released under a permissive license. The software will stay around. The contributions from LISA/MILA have clearly b

I disagree. Theano is in widespread use and released under a permissive license. The software will stay around. The contributions from LISA/MILA have clearly been crucial historically, but we don't know at this point what will happen to Theano when they direct their attentions elsewhere. Personally I am inclined to think people and development will move to the other libraries Bengio alludes to, but even so, spreading a public declaration of the "death" of a pioneering decade-long project is not to be done lightly. Spreading that kind of rumors is a contribution towards making sure Theano doesn't have a future after MILA.