[Foundation-l] We need to make it easy to fork and leave

[Nikola Smolenski]

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.