> Let it be known that the hosts of the ApneaBoard forum have finally succeeded in their efforts to hijack the SleepyHead project.
Sounds like it's not "shutting down" as much as forked, and he's upset. Also it looks like the reason why it's getting forked is because critical bugs went out. People are relying on this to live, and he's treating it like a hobby -- because it is to him.
His post is full of recriminations and cries about being betrayed. Even the forum post someone found[0] in these comments supports this idea of a fork.
> ApneaBoard's recent "release committee" initiative is illegitimate and is seeking to undermine my years of work on SleepyHead and undermine my role in my own software project."
> If it's NOT SleepyHead, don't call it SleepyHead, and don't make it look like SleepyHead... it's that simple!
The code is GPLed[1]. It sounds like there were other people willing to contribute. The code goes on, without him.
[0] http://www.cpaptalk.com/viewtopic/t174687/SleepyHead-Project...