Or, more realistically, they said that it is a conflict of interest to sit on the board of two different (competing) projects, OpenOffice and LibreOffice. No o

Or, more realistically, they said that it is a conflict of interest to sit on the board of two different (competing) projects, OpenOffice and LibreOffice. No one said they couldn't be part of the "community." Since the code base was just forked, patches can be applied to both projects (and should, where appropriate).