358 points ofalkaed | 1 comments | 11 Oct 25 22:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.236s | source

Just curious and who knows, maybe someone will adopt it or develop something new based on its ideas.

CORBA, it got hopelessly complex but it's full potential was never reached as the greed heads took it over.

Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?