If it's not fun anymore, you get nothing from maintaining a popular package
Personally I felt people on GitHub were being way too harsh. He built something, moved on, and gave it away. He had no way of knowing the person who took it over would use it maliciously.Seriously, some of the comments blew my mind. Because he built it, he had a responsibility to maintain it forever, and was responsible for everything that happened with that code forever?Maybe calling free software "Open Source" was a mistake. If something is "free", then you have to accept you may get what you paid for. If you are using somebody else's code, is it their responsibility to look after it years after they have moved on, or your responsibility to make sure it's not full of bugs or malicious code.