> In fact an article puts the abandonment rate of open source projects on Github at about 98% - meaning that there is no activity on 98% of projects after a yea

> In fact an article puts the abandonment rate of open source projects on Github at about 98% - meaning that there is no activity on 98% of projects after a year. This has coined a phrase - abandonware. That's factually incorrect. The term "abandonware" dates back to the 90s (long before github) and was originally used to describe software that was predominantly proprietary. Virtually all proprietary software ever written has become abandoned or will eventually become abandoned, but I guess that fact doesn't really square with what the author wants to say.