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Originally Posted by DNSB
... As for comments about forking code and/or taking over code, a lot of OSS I use only survived since someone took over the code when the original programmers were no longer interested, lacked the time to maintain the code or ran into real life issues.
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This was a while ago and my memory could easily be faulty, but didn't Apprentice Alf basically hand over the reins to Apprentice Harper, giving Harper access to the Apprentice Alf blog, etc.? It's not like Alf continued to develop and release DeDRM plugins with Harper releasing a second DeDRM plugin so that there were 2 different DeDRM plugins out there.
I'm curious whether Apprentice Harper will drop out now that noDRM is actively developing the plugin. And will Apprentice Alf's blog continue to be updated with noDRM's releases, or will it fade away? Will people who post on Alf's blog or Harper's GitHub — or even MobileRead — with 7.x problems be referred to the 10.x versions of the plugin developed by noDRM?
I suppose this is more a support issue than anything else.
In any case, I appreciate that noDRM is bringing renewed energy and development to the tools (as I also appreciate Apprentice Alf's and Apprentice Harper's work through the years).