Chris is usually smart and in my own discussions with him at various conferences, events, have found his take on community and what it entails interesting. A Mozilla community differs from an OpenOffice.org one, and though there are clear similarities across all community projects, the crucial distinctions in code architecture, sponsoring contributors, and originating milieu structure both the development and the state of a community at any given time.
Lately, I've been focusing less on the relative importance of license, independence, or actual social and cultural milieu and more on the brute fact of code architecture. As Linus Torvalds and others have pointed out, open source works best in a modularized environment, where what a coder does is limited to the module. That's not the case with OpenOffice.org.
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