Comment by lp4v4n

I was going to comment exactly this.

I think they are predicting that free-software projects are in freefall and no longer attract good people.

I recall reading a Linus Torvalds interview in which he said that Git's killer feature was its current maintainer.

It sounds like a realization that you can only leech off the host so much, and once your host is dead, there is nobody else to leech from.