unrumor it
At this stage it it still just a rumor, but there are reasons to believe that DMOZ will suffer the same fate as Zeal. DMOZ has been dieing for a while, AOL knows it, and educated webmasters knows it. This has gone on for years.
However it is not possible to kill DMOZ right away, DMOZ is editor driven and some editors have spent hundreds or even thousands of hours adding content to the directory. Like any other large online community it has it�s own culture and codex, by pulling the plug AOL would make this mass of web users unhappy. It is better to soften up the community first and make more and more editors discontinue their work for the project. A year ago I would have guessed that DMOZ would still be a active project in 2010, I now doubt that DMOZ will see the second half of 2007. If the rumors I am hearing are correct DMOZ will die in a month or two. By not allowing new edits and discontinuing the RDF, most sites using DMOZ data will replace DMOZ with something else or nothing at all.
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