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Nicely said, but the reality is that no software is "perfected", just abandoned.

Hell, even sysvinit had some big updates recently.



qmail, djbdns, grep, awk, sed, TeX, SQLite, zlib, curl


runit. Every other year someone forks it because they think its abandoned, make some commits for some weeks, and then find nothing else to change and start to look abandoned themselves.


qmail

Also many common lisp packages, 15-20 years old and work perfectly fine.




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