Yeah recently had this happen in the. Net world for some projects: They went from free to commercial or some other reason, and then people quickly forked the last version before that. All with that idea that they’re the defenders of what was good about it.

But let’s face it, if you had anywhere near the interest and commitment to that subject matter, you’d already be maintaining a competing project, or be helping at the original one.

I think people are enticed by the glory of having a repo with many stars, but have no realistic idea how much of their time this would eat up if they were serious about it.