I don't get this complaint. That's part of the awesomeness that comes with open-source.
Dying projects can be brought to life if you find a usage for them. For example, Blender (http://www.blender.org) was dumped by a dying company and brought to life again by enthusiasts.
Why? Because they could. Projects, even when abandoned, are still valuable.
Now, the real problem with Flex and the reason why Flex will probably die is not abandonment. Flex may die because it sits on top of a proprietary plugin. That's the real jewel that should be open-sourced before it is too late.
And yet another reason why people may not be interested in an open-sourced Flex ... Flex has competition that can compile to Flash AND Javascript: http://openlaszlo.org/
You do realize that Flex already is open source?[1]
About OpenLaszlo... I thought that it could become important one day; however, this never happened. I haven't looked into OL for quite some time now, but what can it offer that you can't get with HTML 5 nowadays?
Dying projects can be brought to life if you find a usage for them. For example, Blender (http://www.blender.org) was dumped by a dying company and brought to life again by enthusiasts.
Why? Because they could. Projects, even when abandoned, are still valuable.
Now, the real problem with Flex and the reason why Flex will probably die is not abandonment. Flex may die because it sits on top of a proprietary plugin. That's the real jewel that should be open-sourced before it is too late.
And yet another reason why people may not be interested in an open-sourced Flex ... Flex has competition that can compile to Flash AND Javascript: http://openlaszlo.org/