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Seems like this is becoming the terminal phase of the FOSS lifecycle for many projects.

I wonder what makes some long-lived communities immune to this behavior...OpenBSD comes to mind.

Github culture is the infection vector. That's why OpenBSD is unaffected.

Hygiene, folks.

Also could be the fact that the entire reason OpenBSD exists is that De Raadt got cancelled out of NetBSD: http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/1994/12/23/0000.ht...