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This morning brought the significant - and long overdue – announcement of the launch of an independent foundation to host development of the open source, ODF-compliant OpenOffice productivity suite. It should have happened ten years ago.
Worse, when a company gets bought, all bets are off.
Corporations that wish to encourage wide participation by the development community must spin their projects out as independent legal entities. Only by doing so can they guarantee to code contributors that their efforts will not later be subverted or financially abandoned. Knowing that open source software can be forked is not the same as knowing that the project you spent years of your life building can suddenly be abandoned or redirected in a fashion that was never intended.
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