Comment by kelnos

> What happens when it's no longer fun, but 150,000 people depend on it for their job?

Then a few of those 150,000 people can start contributing and take over maintainership. If no one wants to step up, then I guess it isn't that important to them.

If you're depending on a one-person open source show for your company's livelihood, it's on you if you don't have a contingency plan for if/when that one person decides to abandon the project, or, hell, dies or gets too ill to continue working on it.

> I question the validity of open-sourcing anything for fun unless you design the licence, and more, to enable you to walk away and/or get bored.

No one owes you anything. Any way that anyone wants to open source something is perfectly valid. No one has to use their work for free, or under any particular terms. People who need the functionality from an open source project are free to find a different project (free or paid) or build their own, if they are uncomfortable with how a particular project is managed or licensed.