Sure there is... Forking and convincing a significant portion of users and contributors to move with you.

This happened with iojs... Which is where Node as an org today came from. It happened with xfree86 to xorg...

It also fails plenty... I'm the the, you are not entitled to someone else's work. Make your own, or if the license permits, create your own fork... And if you lack the technical ability, sucks to be you.