I really didn&#x27;t like the unwelcoming label of &quot;stupidity&quot;<p>You wonder why tech work gets the reputation of being unwelcoming to women? It&#x27;s because of posts like this... Truth is, it is often wildly unwelcoming to everyone.<p>I&#x27;ve forked plenty of repos without starring them or getting listed as an actual contributor.<p>I forked entityframework (core) last night for example. I&#x27;m playing with the idea of writing a MySQL provider.<p>Will it ever get pushed or rolled back in? Unlikely. I&#x27;ll never be listed as a contributor.<p>But is that stupid? Forking was what I wanted to do in this case.  I can push into MY EF repo without issuing PRs.<p>It&#x27;s really low cost too (in all of time, effort, money virtually nil)<p>&quot;stupid&quot; isn&#x27;t just the wrong word, it&#x27;s a &quot;jerk&quot; word to use.