GitHub contributor goes rogue, closed-sources SimH

This is exemplary of the problem of open source, and human politics. And why people still mostly like working in authoritarian organisations where one person usually cannot do this (unless they are the autocract)

Honestly I do not understand the problem - I have read the thread and understand people are upset, but really summoning up the wisdom of Solomon to fix the politics here is beyond me, and probably most of us. I expect people will fork something. Democracy will mostly win out. SEO not withstanding.

This is why Linus cannot say nice things.

The TL;DR here is that Mark Pizzolato introduced an unpopular feature that silently turned disk images into containers. A few forks were started to remove this feature, resulting in Mark unilaterally changing the license to close the source.

Edit: Should clarify that Mark does NOT own the project, he owns only the GitHub presence, and has removed the ability of others to interfere in his takeover.