@david_chisnall The entity that improves the code base the most, and has the better tool, the better support, will be the surviving fork. Especially if "competing" forks are going to take patches forward/back. If one does not care about what the other fork adds, then one is good, but if all users leave..... becomes a question of why one is working on code, who it is for, which might be maybe just yourself; but then also why one opens it.
And open source, the worst part likely is the users 