I’m convinced that the people who just suggest forking an open source project with 100s or 1000s of man years behind it lack practical experience in building or

I’m convinced that the people who just suggest forking an open source project with 100s or 1000s of man years behind it lack practical experience in building or maintaining large software systems. Dismissing valid criticism with “just fork it if you don’t agree” has got to be some of the most useless advice parroted around open source.