3.4. Application to Projects
- An active project can be passed on to another maintainer by the permission of its current maintainer.
- An abandoned project is there for anyone to take it. (if the old developer lost interest, he is expected to allow anyone to try to take over)
- An unfilled niche (the frontier) can be filled out by anyone who wishes to start a project.
- The hacker culture thrives by gradually filling more and more unfilled niches.