Koha community squares off against commercial fork

Ah, okay; my experience has mostly been of such transfers being out of the hands of the developers involved. In any case, I don't think you could have known that Liblime wouldn't be a good maintainer, or that Katipo would have continued to be a good maintainer, or that HLT would have been a better place for the assets, and the rest of the community really couldn't have known that you'd make a choice which would turn out to be wrong. I think think ultimately have to come down to lots of unrelated people having the right to do something about misbehavior, rather than trying to find someone trustworthy.