Journal Jarth's Journal: Open Sourcing, a thing from the past ?

Recently i noticed an increasing number of projects are outdating, no longer receiving frequent updates, being simply abandoned for some other thing to do. Here i think lies a great pitfall for open-source projects.

After checking out a couple (just 2) software archives/repositories this impression has grown on me. Especially those really-neat-idea projects are often left in beta-stage, pre-alpha or did reach a stable stage but are no longer maintained.

Truly sad, how will this affect the image of open-source with all those newbies comming to have a look in that great-bunch-of-software ?