On: When 'open core' projects reject contributions for...

[bmitc]

(a) You could do that here. (b) It's not exactly realistic to take on every open source project because the maintainers refuse certain simple fixes and additions. You'd very quickly become a hoarder of open source projects.

[growse → bmitc]

You can solve (b) by hiring people to do this for you.

[bmitc → growse]

Still not realistic. If this is the end state of open source software (i.e., "just fork it"), then it's not exactly a winning model, is it?

[growse → bmitc]

This is literally one of the primary points of OSS.