I admittedly know very little about the open source movement; but what I do know is that Quicksilver a) would never have been started as an open source project, and b) only experienced real growth and innovation under the fingers of single developer who called it his own. The difference in development rate is astounding and, to some, surprising, but tho old adage "too many cooks spoil the broth" has never been truer.
My question is as follows: once a product becomes open source, is that usually it? Have there ever been cases in which a once open-source product became proprietary again? Unfortunately I feel like that's Quicksilver's only chance of survival at this point. The value have having an emotional connection of code that you literally own is really quite invaluable. Not too optimistic, but I figured I'd ask.
