I understand your viewpoint. I just don't understand why I should care about this project, out of the sea of millions of projects that are abandoned due to the personal/real life issues of the author (i.e. the LuaOS author). Since it is open source, it can be easily forked and maintained by an author that cares (based on the many varied responses to this thread, there seem to be several developers that fit the criteria).
He is not asking for sympathy or money. He is crying for help - For a maintainer. (The article and the direct link to the project site mentions this).
So you may not be interested, but others might. And that is what this forum is about. And as you said, from the responses of many in this thread it is clear that many are interested in this news.
