On 15/08/11 08:16, David Richfield wrote:
It's not just financial collapse. When Sun was
acquired by Oracle and
they started messing about with OpenOffice, it was not hard to fork
the project - take the codebase and run with it. It's not that easy
for Wikipedia, and we want to make sure that it remains doable, or
else the Foundation has too much power over the content community.
I'm fairly confident it would be much easier to fork Wikipedia than
OpenOffice.