To tell you the truth I'm surprised no one else took it on :/ Anyway I'm leaving the site live at my cost and traffic just on my server alone is in the terabytes.
That was never the main reason. The main reason for open source is to avoid duplication of work. When you gave up on the project had it been open source someone could have taken over where you left off.
Without the source there is no "taking over". It is more like "I am surprised nobody started over from scratch to make an alternative". Well they did there are numerous Bitcoin niche distros that started from scratch.
Ahh cool I knew of BAMT but haven't heard of anymore ?
p2pcoin is largely based on linuxcoin, and it runs a self-contained p2pool node.