New ask Hacker News story: Finding unmaintained popular OSS projects as a creative way to start business?

Finding unmaintained popular OSS projects as a creative way to start business?
4 by talboren | 5 comments on Hacker News.
i find it happening more and more, companies that started this way: they either found a pretty-popular repo that is no longer maintained or they "inherited" a no-longer maintained popular repo and grew a business out of it. wdyt?