wikiHow:Right to Fork

You have the right to fork.

You have the Right to Fork. In the event that wikiHow's steward Jack Herrick fails to act in a manner consistent with our mission, the community can move the software and content to a new server run by a different steward or organization. This freedom ensures that wikiHow will always be run by a person or organization that focuses on our shared mission above competing concerns.

wikiHow and Wikipedia are among the few online communities that enjoy this freedom. In most online communities such as MySpace, Facebook, and eHow, the software and content are the proprietary property of the controlling corporation. Users in those communities are locked into those corporations and have only one right: the Right to Leave.

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