Post #884649

2026-04-01 12:49 UTC

Oh what a week in office land: not only #OnlyOffice vs. #EuroOffice (don&#39;t get me started on this one). But also #collabora, main contributor to #LibreOffice, is kicked out of #TheDocumentFoundation, which leads them focusing on #CollaboraOffice. Not an April fool&#39;s joke although it sounds exactly like (a bad) one. See Michael Meeks&#39; post on this: https://www.collaboraonline.com/blog/tdf-ejects-its-core-developers/ Not exactly optimal, where we have a great window of opportunity to push further for #Digitalsovereignity

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@spaetz@mas.to 2026-04-03 09:55

Looked a bit deeper into the precendents of @CollaboraOffice vs @tdforg now. Some TDF board votes seem very much biased and unfair. E.g. to invalidate Simon Phipps @webmink vote in https://community.documentfoundation.org/t/vote-adopt-version-1-of-community-bylaws/13472/8 as a "conditional" and thereby "not countable" has a very bad reek. All he did, is to say (paraphrased): "We should not have this vote for [reasons], BUT IF WE DO PROCEED, I VOTE NO" Still, there are only looser, no winners, a pity. #libreOffice #collaboraoffice #office

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@DoctorG_1@social.vivaldi.net 2026-04-01 13:32

@spaetz Dividing power instead of gaining more, such does not lead to market increase. Was für ein Mist. Ist doch so. Streiten die sich auch noch um die Krümel. So wird das mit Linux nie was an Verbreitung.

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@Sweetshark@social.tchncs.de 2026-04-01 15:21

@spaetz yeah, its Not Good(tm): https://social.tchncs.de/@Sweetshark/116329839071048300

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@railmeat@fosstodon.org 2026-04-01 23:17

@spaetz Open source politics makes the whole thing untenable. It is getting worse.

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@paolo@mastodon.opencloud.lu 2026-04-05 11:30

@spaetz I totally agree that the situation is not optimal and that it should have been fixed a long time ago. Naturally Michael Meeks is free to express his opinions on his own blog and his own company website so at least there he doesn't get told to stop spreading biased statements that aren't helping neither his company nor the community. Lots of clarifications are overdue to stop speculations: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/04/05/lets-put-an-end-to-the-speculation/

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