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“Fourteen months ago, the Autopackage project was small and
active, and members sounded optimistic about its success. Now,
although the alternative installer project continues, progress has
almost come to a halt. The #autopackage channel on irc.oftc.net
sits vacant most days, the developer blogs cover almost anything
except the project, and commits to the source code repository have
become rare. Formally, the project is still alive, but the major
contributors all agree that it is faltering. So what happened?“The answer reflects why many free and open source software
(FOSS) projects fail, and the difficulties of introducing any major
changes to the fundamental structure of Linux today…”
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