I posted a graph on LinkedIn. It showed that of the 10 million open source projects tracked by ecosyste.ms, more than half haven’t been updated in two years. I didn’t suggest old was bad or good, but I got a number of replies about most of this software is “done” so it’s fine. We don’t have any evidence either way, I’m unwilling to make any claims about the numbers (yet, I’m working on it). This got me wondering what it would mean for software to be “done”. Which then led to the question is anything ever done? It’s a lot harder to figure this out than I had expected.
Not OC but: I won’t always read an article when the post title is a perfectly valid question. Software can be “done”, but typically the environment in which it runs evolves, so at some point a patch might be needed.
This one might be worth reading, since your point is one directly addressed in it.