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Re:Sublime Text packages are on GitHub by coldtea on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @03:10PM (#9814390)
Whereas if the lead developer of Emacs was hit by a car?

Lots of open source projects have 1 or 2 people doing 90% of the work, and when they lose interest (or find the next thing to carea about) they die.

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Re:Sublime Text packages are on GitHub by dragonwriter on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @03:22PM (#9814481)
With an open source project, a sufficiently interested third-party has at least the legal right to pick up development of the code base that their work depends on (or to pay the developer of their choice to do so.)

With a closed source project, that's not the case.

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