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Any Github repo can be cloned and forked. Open source projects are rarely defined by long term control by a single individual, I think you are overestimating what control Bitcoin core actually has.

Also, did you read the last statement of Coinbase:

"We are going to call the chain with the most accumulated difficulty Bitcoin"

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