> But a fork is not a simple matter; it is a lot of work, and will fail without people and resources behind it
Well yes. There is no free lunch. Open source only works if enough people are willing to give back. If your fork dies, that probably means the project had a lot of free riders.
The main issue i have with rug pulls is its essentially false advertising. They grew their customer base by promising open source and reneged when it was no longer convinent. This feels morally gross to me.
However i don't know that i actually am worried about the no longer making contributions aspect. Nobody is obliged to continue working on something forever. Its a totally normal thing for individuals to retire from a project, its fine for companies to stop too.