Nautilus lost at sea

Eazel, maker of the intersting-but-not-that-cool GNOME add-on Nautilus has closed its doors for good, due to a lack of funding. Hrm. Kinda sucks, you hate to see something new and relatively interesting get beat down so hard like that. But isn’t that the point of Linux? Won’t the community try and build it on their own, provided that Eazel opens up the code?