My experience with open sourcing dead product is that unless there is an interested community which understands the virtues of the product and wants to keep it alive, there are practically no advantages to open sourcing it.
There are graveyards out there full of dead open source code. Will it ever be used? who knows. Without people a product is just dead code.
There are graveyards out there full of dead open source code. Will it ever be used? who knows. Without people a product is just dead code.