Comment about Collabora blog post
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Comment about Collabora blog post
Comment about Collabora blog post - TDF Community Blog
Many people have asked The Document Foundation for its official position on what Collabora announced in a blog post. This is not the first announcement of this kind in FLOSS environments, nor will it be the last. Collabora feels that it has to invest in a specific product that differs from traditional, full-featured office suites such as LibreOffice. They are, of course, free to take this approach based on the MPL licence. However, Collabora has framed this as a direct consequence of the Membership Committee’s decision to remove Collabora employees from TDF membership based on the recently approved Community Bylaws. The Community Bylaws require that employees of companies involved in legal disputes with The Document Foundation be removed from TDF membership because, in the past, people made decisions in the interest of their employers rather than in the interest of The Document Foundation. We would prefer to avoid further discussion about who is responsible for what, as this would lead to endless debates that would not benefit the project as a whole (i.e. The Document Foundation, its ecosystem companies, and its volunteer contributors). Unfortunately, a series of wrong decisions in the past have turned into an ongoing problem which has
TDF Community Blog (blog.documentfoundation.org)
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Comment about Collabora blog post
Comment about Collabora blog post - TDF Community Blog
Many people have asked The Document Foundation for its official position on what Collabora announced in a blog post. This is not the first announcement of this kind in FLOSS environments, nor will it be the last. Collabora feels that it has to invest in a specific product that differs from traditional, full-featured office suites such as LibreOffice. They are, of course, free to take this approach based on the MPL licence. However, Collabora has framed this as a direct consequence of the Membership Committee’s decision to remove Collabora employees from TDF membership based on the recently approved Community Bylaws. The Community Bylaws require that employees of companies involved in legal disputes with The Document Foundation be removed from TDF membership because, in the past, people made decisions in the interest of their employers rather than in the interest of The Document Foundation. We would prefer to avoid further discussion about who is responsible for what, as this would lead to endless debates that would not benefit the project as a whole (i.e. The Document Foundation, its ecosystem companies, and its volunteer contributors). Unfortunately, a series of wrong decisions in the past have turned into an ongoing problem which has
TDF Community Blog (blog.documentfoundation.org)
Mhh two very different sides of one medal.
Has there been anything released about the legal disputes or the decisions made in the past, that could threaten the project? -
Comment about Collabora blog post
Comment about Collabora blog post - TDF Community Blog
Many people have asked The Document Foundation for its official position on what Collabora announced in a blog post. This is not the first announcement of this kind in FLOSS environments, nor will it be the last. Collabora feels that it has to invest in a specific product that differs from traditional, full-featured office suites such as LibreOffice. They are, of course, free to take this approach based on the MPL licence. However, Collabora has framed this as a direct consequence of the Membership Committee’s decision to remove Collabora employees from TDF membership based on the recently approved Community Bylaws. The Community Bylaws require that employees of companies involved in legal disputes with The Document Foundation be removed from TDF membership because, in the past, people made decisions in the interest of their employers rather than in the interest of The Document Foundation. We would prefer to avoid further discussion about who is responsible for what, as this would lead to endless debates that would not benefit the project as a whole (i.e. The Document Foundation, its ecosystem companies, and its volunteer contributors). Unfortunately, a series of wrong decisions in the past have turned into an ongoing problem which has
TDF Community Blog (blog.documentfoundation.org)
@libreoffice not clear at all. You also did not comment on reviving LibreOffice online.
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Comment about Collabora blog post
Comment about Collabora blog post - TDF Community Blog
Many people have asked The Document Foundation for its official position on what Collabora announced in a blog post. This is not the first announcement of this kind in FLOSS environments, nor will it be the last. Collabora feels that it has to invest in a specific product that differs from traditional, full-featured office suites such as LibreOffice. They are, of course, free to take this approach based on the MPL licence. However, Collabora has framed this as a direct consequence of the Membership Committee’s decision to remove Collabora employees from TDF membership based on the recently approved Community Bylaws. The Community Bylaws require that employees of companies involved in legal disputes with The Document Foundation be removed from TDF membership because, in the past, people made decisions in the interest of their employers rather than in the interest of The Document Foundation. We would prefer to avoid further discussion about who is responsible for what, as this would lead to endless debates that would not benefit the project as a whole (i.e. The Document Foundation, its ecosystem companies, and its volunteer contributors). Unfortunately, a series of wrong decisions in the past have turned into an ongoing problem which has
TDF Community Blog (blog.documentfoundation.org)
This is very worrisome! Most developers are from Collabora. Should we now start using Collabora Office, because that will be the only version that is maintained? Could this be the end of LibreOffice? Hopefully you will start to work together again! That's the only solution!
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This is very worrisome! Most developers are from Collabora. Should we now start using Collabora Office, because that will be the only version that is maintained? Could this be the end of LibreOffice? Hopefully you will start to work together again! That's the only solution!
@Scott_Trakker A big chunk of code commits is currently done by Collabora developers, but not all, and there are many other things in a project (like QA, translations, documentation, design etc.) which are done by hundreds of people also outside of Collabora. And TDF is taking on new developers. So don't worry, LibreOffice will not only be developed further, but a lot of work is being done, even outside of the ecosystem!
