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Re:Science by democracy doesn’t work by Qwertious on Saturday January 24, 2015 @08:54PM (#8941793)
Which is itself related to "if you don't like open-source software X, you can just fork it", which has the same problems.

I find it interesting in that it's a useful argument, but only at a communal level - if the entire community hates the direction of a project (e.g. OpenOffice), they can fork it and take it in a different direction.

You're still boned as a discerning individual if you dislike the program, though.

Re:Science by democracy doesn’t work by ahomescu1 on Saturday January 24, 2015 @11:18PM (#8942021)
> I find it interesting in that it's a useful argument, but only at a communal level - if the entire community hates the direction of a project (e.g. OpenOffice), they can fork it and take it in a different direction.

You can take leadership of the community and lead by example: fork it yourself and start hacking, then try to get more people to join.