CentOS itself may hit the skids but the thing that CentOS represents to the community will probably never die. Before CentOS had critical mass White Box Enterprise Linux was another distribution doing the same thing.
It may well be time for everybody else (signers on the open letter, for example) to found a replacement project and suggest everyone migrate over. Then the guy who's losing interest can decide whether he wants to play ball or go home.
several months of absence of a decision is also a decision.
It is funny that incidents like this highlight a fundamental difference between bazaar style foss on the one side 'closed' source and corporate style foss on the other (for instance redhat), the issues surrounding individuals would never shine through as bright in a corporate setting. The corporate identity shields to some extent the fact that it too is made up out of individuals.
