This kills me about some members of the /. community. It's an open source project. It doesn't matter if the people in charge walk away from a major project like this. It happens all the time... but the code is in the public domain. Development would continue if every single one of the current developers decided to walk on the same day. Even so, if it looked like no one else was going to pick up development, and you were worried because you use the software regularly and depend on updates, the responsible reaction would be to pick up the development yourself, or at least start a fund to pay for future development, like was done for Blender.
