Because Ethereum is open source, anyone who wants to can “fork,” meaning, use it to pursue a different vision. This kind of social innovation legitimates governance, but in a way that is free of the legitimacy provided by representative elections. This way, people can see when social innovations work better. --- Audrey Tang
「ソーシャルイノベーションが統治を正統化するが、その過程では現状の統治の正統性とは独立である」ということ。
オープンソースは誰でもforkできるので、多種多様な実験が行える。
In terms of "legitimating governance," the author is suggesting that the ability to fork, or create a new direction for the project, provides a form of democratic governance. However, this legitimacy does not come from the traditional representative elections as in political systems. Instead, it is achieved through the consensus of the community and their collective decisions about the direction of the project.