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> But that day is guaranteed to never come, because the Amiga project is disbanded. So should we keep that until the heat death of the universe? Surely there a
by chipotle_coyote 5y ago
> But that day is guaranteed to never come, because the Amiga project is disbanded. So should we keep that until the heat death of the universe?
Surely there are more options "keep that until the heat death of the universe" and "remove that the moment its platform is out of production". A more practical metric for free/open software, I think, would be "is there still someone maintaining this software on this platform": every major release (e.g., 5.x -> 6.0) could be a time to do a sanity check, documenting ports that don't have an active maintainer as "deprecated". At the next major release, if nobody's stepped up to maintain it, then it gets removed. (One could argue even that's too draconian, because there may be people still using the port even if it's not maintained.)