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Re:Gnu Privacy Guard relies on one underfunded person (2015) by philippnagel on Friday September 01, 2017 @05:27AM (#15147151)
Are there any other projects of such nature?
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Re:Gnu Privacy Guard relies on one underfunded person (2015) by work_account on Friday September 01, 2017 @09:14AM (#15148067)
Not quite the same, but the time zone database was voluntarily maintained by some random guy for decades, until he got a lawsuit in 2011 and ICANN eventually took over.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3081281

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database#2011_lawsuit

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Re:Gnu Privacy Guard relies on one underfunded person (2015) by mprovost on Friday September 01, 2017 @12:34PM (#15150011)
ncurses and the terminfo database (which ship with pretty much every Unix-like) are maintained by one person, Thomas E. Dickey.
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