Comment Re:How a project is maintained (Score 1) 177
For example LibreOffice was forked from OpenOffice because to much potential contributors was frustrated by the way the OpenOffice maintainers was with them in the past.
There's a lot more politics to it than that. LibreOffice started as Novell's Go-OO fork, which contained things covered by MS patents that could not be upstreamed because the indemnity only covered Novell. They managed to spin it very well about wanting to avoid Oracle being in control though...