In Memoriam: the free software projects we lost in 2010

LWN guest author Nathan Willis writes: "In November I wrote about the apparent demise of the well-known mail delivery agent procmail, which has not been updated since 2001, but is still routinely packaged by Linux distributions. Whatever your feelings about procmail itself, the story prompted a discussion in the comment threads that we revisit periodically as a community: what exactly does it mean for a free or open source project to die anyway?" Click below (subscribers only) for his look back at the projects which fell by the wayside in 2010.

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