It is well understood in the community that project owners have a duty to pass projects to competent successors when they are no longer willing or able to invest needed time in development or maintenance work.

— Eric S. Raymond, Homesteading the Noosphere (1998)

Source: http://catb.org/~esr/writings/homesteading/homesteading/ar01s04.html

From the section 'Ownership and Open Source' in Homesteading the Noosphere (1998).

Topics: software engineering, open source