If one took the attitude of "this software works for me and you're free to use it if you like," there'd be no guilt or stress in open source. But we want to hel

If one took the attitude of "this software works for me and you're free to use it if you like," there'd be no guilt or stress in open source. But we want to help others and/or gain reputation by solving their problems, too, which leads us to feel obligated to maintain it. This is mostly a good thing, I think; without it, we'd have a lot of one-off projects with limited reusability. But it's also valid to say "I no longer have time for this, anyone is welcome to take it over." It just takes a bit of emotional strength to do that. (Dr. Nic in the Ruby community is aggressive about doing this.)