Honestly, I don't think this is fair. If software is useful enough, there are people and other companies that are often willing to put in money and resources. F

Honestly, I don't think this is fair. If software is useful enough, there are people and other companies that are often willing to put in money and resources. For a pure community example, consider the story of Jellyfin, a fork of Emby. Open source is not a panacea. But just because keeping the door open doesn't guarantee anyone will bother to use it doesn't mean having the door open is not ridiculously useful. I think there Is a way to tell if an open source project is robust against shenanigans: - The more stakeholders investing, the better. - Projects with governance and copyright not assigned to a single company have a lot less chance of needing a fork to begin with.