[WJW]

Why does "everyone lose" if a well-run open source initiative forks it and runs it better? That seems like like an improvement for everyone except maybe the original maintainer of the project, if they don't want to join up with the rest of the people.

[swah]

I was thinking that users will have to use a "worse" (less features) open-source alternative for years until it comes to parity.

If its a niche thing, the community for each software could be cut in half, etc.