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Healthy and not extremely niche Free Software projects don't disappear. My software stack I rely on daily mostly barely changed in 15 and more years.

The amount of businesses closed, sold and products abandoned or swapped for the more controlled/exploitable ones is numerous, on the other hand.

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1shooner|10 days ago

>Healthy and not extremely niche Free Software projects don't disappear.

This sounds a lot like a circular definition.

Not really? One is the cause (bad management/tech debt/problematic architecture/no public interest, etc.), the second is the effect.