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Unfortunately this is often a signal of something shutting down.
by api 5y ago
Unfortunately this is often a signal of something shutting down.
- sildur 5y agoYeah, like OpenOffice, or Blender, or Java, or UQM.
- marcodiego 5y agoOpenOffice, Blender and Java were in "full steam" development when they were open sourced. Actually, the company developing Blender had some financial difficulties, but its development was running nevertheless.
- cinntaile 5y agoCan you tell us something about the percentage of projects that made a successful transition? At this point it is hard to tell whether your examples are survivorship bias or not.
- sildur 5y agoI tried to, but I didn’t find a list of projects that went open source, so I had to go by my memory. Which may have some kind of survivorship bias, as I maybe forgot those projects which went open source, but failed.
- SloopJon 5y agoThis is not a category of software that I'm familiar with, so I don't know how Nebulosity compares to its competitors, free or proprietary. My intuition says that 71,000 lines of C and C++ code is manageable for a person or group with the right motivation. One thing that puts a clock on it in the intermediate to long term is camera support, which I gather from the README is a significant maintenance task. The project will bleed users if it doesn't support their new cameras. Edit: it looks like Nebulosity sold for $95. Some other software in this space I see mentioned on the Cloudy Nights forum are Astro Pixel Processor (€ 165), PixInsight (€ 165), and Siril (free).
- solarkraft 5y agoIt does seem to me like the author doesn't expect to sell many more licenses and perhaps wants to wind down his work on it. This can definitely endanger a project (especially previously a one man show, bus factor and all). But instead of a fairly certain death, they have chosen to give the community a chance to keep working on it, which can succeed and help make Nebulosity the de-facto standard in its category.