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How is consensus reached? Who has the 'final say' to merge in the patches necessary to make such a fundamental change?



You know, open source. I can decide not to take the new version or I can even fork it. The majority decides, democracy like.


Wouldn't a fork lead to decreased value for everyone...?




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