The most beautiful part of open source IMO is the fork. Free riders don't (and shouldn't) get a say in any case, but contributors who have disagreements about

The most beautiful part of open source IMO is the fork. Free riders don't (and shouldn't) get a say in any case, but contributors who have disagreements about the direction of a project can rightly split off and take things in their own direction. The more successful open source projects seem to be ones with a dense cadre of opinionated core contributors, which makes this kind of self-partitioning more important.