Re: thowing out the baby with the bathwater
"> Firstly, fixing the existing broken one, if the existing maintainers are unwilling to do it themselves, is accomplished by forking. It's the traditional Linus/FOSS way.
Uhm. no, it's not. The Linux/FOSS way is
1- you fix it yourself
2- you post binaries and source of the fixed stuff so that others can try and see for themselves if the new version is indeed better than the old one."
Quite so. It's called a fork.