I didn't mean to imply that there are not numerous examples of open source projects that have been successfully forked to provide meaningful value in a whole ne

I didn't mean to imply that there are not numerous examples of open source projects that have been successfully forked to provide meaningful value in a whole new direction. However, the article seemed to be saying that open source magically takes control away from the developers and gives it to the end users. I just think that is the exception instead of the norm.