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0 points1shooner1mo ago0 comments

>Healthy and not extremely niche Free Software projects don't disappear.

This sounds a lot like a circular definition.

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Not really? One is the cause (bad management/tech debt/problematic architecture/no public interest, etc.), the second is the effect.

It looks as though your definition of healthy is "survived"; i.e. projects that survived have survived.

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0 points1shooner1mo ago0 comments

>Healthy and not extremely niche Free Software projects don't disappear.

This sounds a lot like a circular definition.

Not really? One is the cause (bad management/tech debt/problematic architecture/no public interest, etc.), the second is the effect.

It looks as though your definition of healthy is "survived"; i.e. projects that survived have survived.

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