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>If you don’t want to participate you don’t have to use it

This has nothing to do with OSS though. You can switch from a closed sources solution too.

The problem is you investment and attachment to certain things.

Yeah, the differences is if heh wants to change something for the better he can try.

In case it is something relatively minor - yes. Fork and rock. Though this is a though decision in itself - you will have to continue the support of your changes, merging upstream changes etc. So in many cases this is a mostly fictional option.

In any other case any person will have a long list of better things to do.

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