html" title="Forks">the section called “Forks”</a><span> in
<a class="xref" href="ch08.html" title="Chapter 8. Managing Volunteers">Chapter 8, <em>Managing Volunteers</em></a></span>), the more serious
the threat of a fork becomes, the more willing people are to
compromise to avoid it.</p><p>Forks, or rather the potential for forks, are the reason there
are no true dictators in free software projects.  This may seem like a
surprising claim, considering how common it is to hear someone called
the "dic