Open Source in 2026: The Fork Wars Are Getting...

Project: Hermes IDE | GitHub Author: gabrielanhaia Something is breaking in open source. Not the code. The social contracts. The open-source world isn't collapsing from lack of funding or contributor burnout (though both are real). It's fracturing because organizations that built empires on community-written software decided the original deal doesn't work for them anymore. Forks are multiplying. Licenses are mutating. Lawyers are circling. The volunteer maintainers who actually wrote most of thi