Open source and free software graveyard, 2014

The good thing about open source projects getting killed off is that there always seems to be another to take its place. Here’s a look at this year’s carnage to date, including some free software and freeware.

The managers of the TrueCrypt open source encryption file and disk encryption software project shut down their effort in May, noting that development was ended after Microsoft curtailed Windows XP support. The tool, for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, has been widely used by professionals and consumers to keep sensitive data confidential via on-the-fly encryption. TrueCrypt’s project team offered recommendations for transferring encrypted data to other programs, such as Microsoft BitLocker.