Patches For Pine Going Away

md8mart writes to let us know about the imminent shutdown of the site that distributes Pine patches. From the RSS feed of Patches for Pine we read the following bad news for all Pine users: "The Department of Mathematics of the University of Washington will close the account that hosts my Patches for Pine site. I would like to thank the Department of Mathematics for having hosted this site for so many years. I do not have current plans to move this site, but this site will disappear on December 15, 2006. Thank you to everyone who supported me by positive feedback and encouragement to do this work through the years. I will update this information as it becomes available."

Comments

This is what non-OSS warns about

[houghi]

This is what non-OSS parties warn about. They will tell that with them it would never happen (not true) while OSS people always clain that somebody will take over the code.

Now I am not sure if Pine is completely OSS or not.

It however shows the weakness of many projects. If a project is maintained by one preson and many, many, many of them are, and that person decides to do something else, it is often a halt to the project, even if teoreticaly it could be either forked or given to somebody else.

Oh well, I am already using mutt for a while now, so no loss for me.

FRIsT PSOT

[Anonymous Coward]

much o8ganisation,