Comment by vouaobrasil

I agree with this article entirely, except I have one counterpoint that should be more emphasized: open source programmers and maintainers should be more explicit and clear that the product can be discontinued, have problems, or just stop working with any updates beyond saying it in the license. Because otherwise normal people will have some ambiguity and have the mistaken idea that there is some social contract, however slight, that what you are offering has some promise of functioning.