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A deleted DOCX editor reignites the OSS sustainability debate.

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A 92-point HN thread flagged that a popular open-source DOCX editor, submitted weeks earlier, was deleted by its author. (Hacker News) It landed the same day as the Akrites coalition, and the juxtaposition is the lesson. We're rallying around critical OSS and watching maintainers quietly walk away in the same news cycle. If your build depends on a single-maintainer project, that's a real risk to price in, not a hypothetical.


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