My parsing of the sentence of the "neither wish to have" part is that the thing the other person controls is the object of this wish. So it still works if we e

My parsing of the sentence of the "neither wish to have" part is that the thing the other person controls is the object of this wish. So it still works if we extrapolate that to something like "If I was in control of this software, I would make it so much better." Well, congrats, because you are (in FOSS)! Even if someone else maintains a project, you can always fork it.