> developers who are already beholden to their own gatekeepers (whether it's the core team of your open source project I couldn't disagree more. The goal of fr

> developers who are already beholden to their own gatekeepers (whether it's the core team of your open source project I couldn't disagree more. The goal of free software is to ensure nobody has that kind of control over you and your tools. If you don't need to organize a fork, great, but they've already agreed they can't stop you. As for the rhetoric, making tools is what makes you a member of our species. Agreeing not to is more like serfdom than partnership.