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Re:Goodbye Mac OS Forge, hello GitHub by mikemcquaid on Sunday August 21, 2016 @07:10AM (#12330429)
The main self-interested reason: we use analytics to judge what packages and options to remove. If no-one using analytics uses software: next time it requires non-trivial maintenance work it will likely be removed rather than fixed.
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Re:Goodbye Mac OS Forge, hello GitHub by Karunamon on Sunday August 21, 2016 @12:44PM (#12331530)
That's even worse - if I had a penny for every time a useful, but unpopular thing was shut down, I could fund my own startup!
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Re:Goodbye Mac OS Forge, hello GitHub by mikemcquaid on Monday August 22, 2016 @03:01AM (#12334576)
And we could fund our open-source project to maintain these things. Sadly neither of us have these pennies ;)
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