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Re:Sublime Text 3 Public Beta by incision on Friday June 28, 2013 @09:47AM (#5957919)
Out of curiosity, are there any notable examples of products/projects which have failed upon having their bus factor checked?

Off the top of my head, I was thinking ReiserFS [0] which seemed lose ground quickly after Reiser's murder charge and subsequent conviction [1].

0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReiserFS

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Reiser#Trial_and_verdict

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Re:Sublime Text 3 Public Beta by davidw on Friday June 28, 2013 @09:55AM (#5957966)
Tcl seemed to have a lot of the wind taken out of its sails when Ousterhout moved on. The language was - and is - still developed by very competent people, but it seemed to suffer some from the lack of a visible leader.
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