You said that the project is dead and said something about it being a failure
of free software. Just because the developer has stopped developing a program
doesn't mean it's "dead" unless it's nonfree. A free program can be picked up
by anyone at any time.
You know, kind of like OpenOffice.org.
Hey, here's a story: there's a free game called Project: Starfighter. Its
developer hadn't developed it since it was "completed" years ago despite a
number of known bugs and use of art assets with ambiguous copyrights. Then
the developer stopped even distributing the gane, and development picked up
the game and developed it to a new version that fixed the bugs and replaced
the graphics and sound with free assets from OpenGameArt. Ironic that it's
much more alive now that it's fully "dead", eh?
