> it's created a world where we can't "contribute to open source" without permission from a gatekeeper maintainer. Hasn't it always been the case that you need

> it's created a world where we can't "contribute to open source" without permission from a gatekeeper maintainer. Hasn't it always been the case that you need permission from the maintainer to get your code included in the official version? But you can still fork your own version at will, and github makes that a one-click process, which seems considerably better for distributed responsibility than the old CVS / SVN style... > algorithms dynamically find us the optimal code for doing X from around the internet without X being a single privileged master branch temple on GitHub. Sounds more like a publicly editable wiki for snippets than open-source project hosting