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A lot of FOSS projects are started by young people, often students. At some point, life hits, with spouses and children and real jobs demanding lots of time. Slowly people burn out, and most of the time, other people want to scratch their own itch and don't necessarily continue what already exists.

I guess password managers are relatively simple at the core but have to fulfil very different requirements so there isn't one obvious piece of software that everybody can focus on. See also bike-shedding vs building a nuclear reactor.

A better philosophy on how to herd cats would be useful in the FOSS world, though. It's a formidable force, but terribly scattered.




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