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It seems to be different from libreOffices move too. First i don't see that the new name communicates the reason for a fork as wll as moviing from open to libre office. secondly as for me, i'd only migrate when there is a debian packages in the repos and migration is reportedly painless.
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One of the main concerns, as pointed out in the blog posts, was the disbalance between community and commercial matters, that made Frank act. And others to join. Nextcloud got some substanital funding by Niels Mache, who is an open source businessman for long time and interested (like the others) in a sustainable undertaking. Nextcloud will need to have commercial success at some point, indeed, nevertheless a long breath is given. I do not worry about disappearing. Also, the majority of core contributors moved to Nextcloud, which gives it a serious base.

How long it is going to take until the code bases are differing too much cannot be answered seriously. Due to still being open source, ownCloud commits can also be merge into Nextcloud (if reasonable) so that the chance is not too bad to keep compatibility up. This affects apps as well, additionally to the rule that public APIs are stable for 3 years.