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People do develop Xorg (X11 is the protocol, Xorg is the software) and as long as there is at least one person "keeping the lights on" it will be developed. Hel
by badsectoracula 5y ago
People do develop Xorg (X11 is the protocol, Xorg is the software) and as long as there is at least one person "keeping the lights on" it will be developed. Hell, even if every single programmer on earth stops working on the codebase, it can still be resurrected at some point later if someone decides to work on.
Open source software is resilient to 'death' and 'abandonment' issues plaguing closed source software.
I'm writing this as someone who is using a window manager (Window Maker) whose original developers abandoned it for years, then someone else picked it up some years ago to continue development and i personally have contributed bug fixes and features to it years after both of those.
OSS doesn't die for as long as there is someone out there who is interested on it.