Yes, the Bus Factor. That's the beauty of open-source: the entire source code is documented and a lot of effort was spent into making it as didactic as possible, so if anything happens, you can continue use it and someone eventually make take it over. For instance, Ultibo developers ported PXL to their platform without my intervention. In fact, I'm planning on liberating it on a more liberal license such as Apache, which would give even more freedom for the development.
Remember AGG? That's exactly what happened there, the author passed away. The project is still alive last time I checked as people forked version before it was GPLed.
No, no no, of course not. What is mean is quite the contrary - there are very few newcomers to Delphi/Pascal world anyway and with current availability of libraries, making yet another engine is the least thing that is needed right now, IMHO.
No, of course not, I'm not referring to you personally, but in general. I know any activities like LAN parties, conferences and so on cost money, but maybe this is something that we could actually organize together. Instead of building a framework/engine that no one needs, do something together than would be more meaningful, with higher impact.
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