I'm confused by this comment. What does marketing have to do with open source at all? I don't care if anyone ever uses my software. It succeeds by virtue of being open source.

Open source software does not require a community to form around it. Software can be "done" and in low to no maintenance mode. It doesn't need to evolve with the time. It just is.

I welcome the discourse around healthy community building but I really dislike this trend of conflating community with open source as if somehow it's a property of free and open source software. It ain't.