In the open source scenario. There will be multiple directions.
One of those "directions" will become dominant. The cost in terms of time and resources of maintaining a fork is very high. This pattern is observable in many existing open source projects.
_________________ "Unix is supposed to fix that." -- Jay Miner
Share to inform me about that... I do not see it. And a business model making money of software that is developed for you for free sorry is no business model or direction (even if those devs do it voluntary)