How do you buy open source code?

I guess the github accounts with permissions might hold value, but the whole idea is that anybody can change the code, and if the witnesses adopt it, that becomes the standard.
Stinc only controls steem in our own minds, not in reality.
The more stake they dump the quicker we get witnesses not attached to stinc's tit.

Until then we are hobbled by folks with rumors running rampant.