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mnemonic:
I'm not sure if anyone knows, but the developer of the wonderful Acemoney software was killed, along with his family, several weeks ago in an aeroplane crash in Russia.  Alexander was a role model for what a developer should do - frequent updates and very active on his support forum.

Currently, the forum is full of people trying to find out what will happen to the software now.  As morbid as it is, do people have plans for what will happen to their software if the worst happens?

mouser:
That is very sad :(

It's a good reminder that we could all dissapear without much advance notice and we all need to make plans for how our property needs to be taken care of.  Thanks for reminding me to update the document i keep listing my wishes.

mwb1100:
It's a situation that understandably not many people (much less developers) think about planning for, especially if it's not a commercial endeavor.

One example that might be useful to follow is Eric Raymond's 'continuity' page: http://www.catb.org/~esr/continuity.html

Pretty simple and straightforward. I think the hard part is making the actual arrangements with whomever you might select as a 'virtual executor'.  Of course if it's a commercial situation, it should be handled in consultation with an attorney, I'd imagine.

mouser:
Excellent page. We should make such a thing for DC.
Maybe we can just start a thread for it..

kyrathaba:
You know, I'd been thinking about this very sort of think a lot lately.  I'd like to have some mechanism to allow my wife to log-on to a site I frequent, such as DC, using my username and password and one extra parameter (to show she's not me), and it would take her automatically to my Last Wishes page.

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