An open source project needs active developers and maintainers in order to stay healthy and grow.<p>Parse is now open source in the sense of &quot;here&#x27;s a bunch of code we&#x27;re throwing over the wall on our way out&quot;. Presumably (after the 1-year deadline) it&#x27;s not going to be maintained or further developed by the original Parse team, who are now working for Facebook and will likely be reassigned to other roles.<p>Who is going to maintain the Parse source after that? A bunch of people that were using Parse <i>specifically because they did not want to write their own backends to begin with</i>?