mozDex what ifs
I am really sorry to see mozDex.com and especially mozDex blog inactive for so long. I thinks things were really starting to look up when Byron just vanished.
I do hope everything is alright, but what if the worst happens? What if mozDex.com ends up endlessly inactive and soon looses a that momentum that I think it had?
What I'm basically asking is could the community take the project over if current owners aren't able to maintain it anymore?
OK, that's maybe still a long shot to ask about, but for the sake of discussion.. Mozdex is important because it is a search engine that can some day stand up to Google oligopoly/monopoly, especially if it continues to waiver in the wrong directions.. And it is also fully transparent and powered by Free Software (almost exclusively with chances of being exclusively).
What do you think?
EDIT: I should note, the last reply we got from Byron Miller (mozDex founder) is more than a week ago saying:
Been busy, will be back on the blog very shortly 
Been working on some updates so you will see things change shortly.
Maybe I'm just overreacting.. :goof:
That's more or less the same question as "could the community take over libervis if you got disconnected permanently" we had to ask a long time ago.
The answer is yes, but it will be very difficult. All exciting projects require a visionary. Without that person, the helpers suddenly get their amount of work doubled or tripled, and lose their sense of direction too.
I think Byron will be back. It looks like mozdex is a bit of a spare time project, and he has had some problems to deal with. Don't worry.
And if all else fails, there's still objectssearch.