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The Linux kernel is a typical poster boy for a successful community project.

But LibreOffice demonstrates a huge win for a community-led project too: if the current maintainers try to move the code to a closed-source pay model, the project just forks.

I agree that LibreOffice hasn't achieved fit and finish, and I'm trying to be patient with that. I'm just happy it has survived. I think a huge downside to any closed-source project is when they end-of-life it. That could be simply because a new version is a ground-up scratch rewrite. Once the code is thrown away, all the effort to build it is lost.