FOSS "Just Fork It" Delusion
Summary
The article critiques the common FOSS maxim 'just fork it', arguing that forking is easy but sustaining a project requires social labor—trust, governance, maintenance, and conflict resolution. It warns that treating forking as empowerment leads to fragmentation, duplicated effort, and loss of value, and calls for stewardship of the shared infrastructure through inclusive, long-term collaboration rather than abdication.