Kirsten's Viewer Discontinued

As every major Second Life blogger has pointed out today, Kirsten's Viewer will no longer be maintained due to personal issues. Kirsten's Viewer is a 3rd party viewer favored by many of Second Life's best photographers and machinimists.

• Here is the official announcement
• Strawberry Singh, an excellent SL photographer and blogger, posted this farewell
• Second Life blogger supreme Daniel Voyager covers the story
• Hamlet Au at New World Notes published a post on the demise
• Inara Pey at Living In A Modern World bids farewell 
• Bixyl Shuftan at Second Life Newser posted this
• Nalates Urriah posted this
• Bryn Oh bids farewell to Kirsten's Viewer 

On the plus side, Kirsten's Viewer is licensed under the GPL and hosted on SourceForge which means that the project could be picked up or forked and continued. Alternately, code from Kirsten's Viewer could be integrated into other viewers (e.g. Firestorm/Phoenix) - I would think the shadows implementation would be extremely desirable as other TPV's I have tried implement shadows poorly (meaning they really just don't work).