badgermurphy

You can watch this same process unfold live before your eyes with Android OS, or if you don’t want to miss the beginning of the show, grab some popcorn and watch these guys.

No. If I were able to contribute, I would have said that. Do you know the answer to my question or just picking fights today?

Does anyone know if there’s any chance for a fork before this situation inevitably deteriorates?

Unfortunately, there is no historical example where this hasn’t turned predatory. Its a tale as old as venture capitalism:

• get free contributions to your FOSS project that youre selling from altruistic people doniting their time and expertise
• make a closed-source set of extensions as optional dependencies
• slowly diverge the closed source feature set to include developer and user "must-haves"
• slow or functionally halt open source contributions.

It is an oft-repeated long con to pull off a mass heist of donated skill and time.

‘It’s my nature.’ the scorpion whispered, ashamed and scared. ‘Self Destruction, it’s in my nature.’