From the blog post: "Except for some basic UNIX tools, like grep or make, it's almost impossible to find anything that's truly finished, not simply abandoned."

From the blog post: "Except for some basic UNIX tools, like grep or make, it's almost impossible to find anything that's truly finished, not simply abandoned." Now, granted, must of us on anything Unix-like is on a BSD or Linux, not on a UNIX, but grep and make are still being patched, here and there. Even 'ls' gets commits. We could get into a pedantic discussion on when something can be classified "finished," but that doesn't seem fruitful. I think we just need to realize that despite following the Unix philosophy (or something similar), which is mainly about modularity and composability, not a single part (modular piece, service, etc.) of modern systems can be left unmaintained, it can never be in a "truly finished state."