[davidhyde]

> “and there’s no one with the power to rebuff them”

Except for those that discover the fork button. /s

In all seriousness I think that what you mean is that people rarely have the power to fork a project and drag all the users and development expertise over to their version. Especially if they are simply users of the system and not contributors. Users of commercial software can get companies to do stuff for them with their wallets.