A house seems like a good analogy... if the owner isn't willing to do maintenance, he'll probably fence it of to avoid fines and liability. A local group might

A house seems like a good analogy... if the owner isn't willing to do maintenance, he'll probably fence it of to avoid fines and liability. A local group might loose their meeting spot, but we still usually consider it worth it. Our dependency on services that will go away is a problem, but I'd prefer we'd search for different ways to preserve software once unmaintained. Government requires authors to send a few copies of books&newspapers to libraries... maybe something like that with source code?