I don&#x27;t see what makes it different from any other open source project. Of course it&#x27;s going to have technical leads and core committers, it&#x27;s not like you can go force a PR merge on jQuery trunk any time you please. I&#x27;m aghast that you would even suggest such a thing.<p>And CLA&#x27;s aren&#x27;t fun, but they&#x27;re hardly new, either.[1]<p>If you don&#x27;t like that it&#x27;s Google, that&#x27;s fine, but at least be honest with yourself about it. But unless you&#x27;ve submitted a PR or can cite a PR (on any Google OSS repo at all) that they&#x27;ve rejected purely on the basis that Google is somehow doing wrong by the developers, then what are we even talking about?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Contributor_License_Agreement#Users" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Contributor_License_Agreement#...</a>