> No-one's going to maintain it.
Why? He's going to maintain it and the community is large enough. Another sci-fi idea that's slowly becoming real is that the project is maintaining itself.
OpenClaw is a bunch of projects that evolved together (vibetunnel, pi-mono, all the CLIs). It's even more interesting to see the next iterations, not only what happens to this project.
We've been here a 1,000 times. This exact news happens over and over again on HN. Why would it be any different from the other times this happens?
This is what US tech companies do to stay dominant. Buy and kill.
This project will die now, that's the point of buying him. For super cheap too but the sound of it.