forking of a community is absolutely deadly Could you expand on this a bit? I imagine it depends on who "deadly" applies to, but forking is just one of the way

forking of a community is absolutely deadly Could you expand on this a bit? I imagine it depends on who "deadly" applies to, but forking is just one of the ways centralized decision makers who are, erm.. not making very good decisions can be worked around. Look at what happened to ffmepg/libav - by any analysis, the fork resulted in better software: http://blog.pkh.me/p/13-the-ffmpeg-libav-situation.html http://blog.pkh.me/p/13-the-ffmpeg-libav-situation.html