LFS is dead and gone.
The excuses about 3 developers is unjust...look at RuneScape, started with ONE person nearly 10 years ago. He developed the game on his own. He got more people on board (more people = more progression, if the developers haven't realised that yet) as he started to get more money from a paid version of the game.
Look at the game now...largest free multiplayer game ever, huge amount of content, huge improvements from where it started.
LFS was a good game, but it's a shame the developers were too stupid to realise. Even if getting more developers wasn't an option financially, there is a large dedicated community willing to help out.
Our only hope is that when they give up, the source files are released.