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by nine_k 1098 days ago
OSS development model functioning as intended.
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It's possible with OSS development but spreading out contributors and patches over three projects instead of one with a functioning community is hardly the ideal OSS development model.
Yet, when you lose value alignment with the project, the best thing to do is to abandon the ship the sooner as possible. Insisting on total collaboration is bad for every party.
If they continue push upstream per the license then it works. There's a lot of Linux desktop apps that work this way; it's hardly a broken model.