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Ideally, we would have preferred to avoid this post. However, the articles and comments published in response to Collabora’s and Michael Meeks’ biased posts compel us to provide this background information on the events that led to the current situation.
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/04/05/lets-put-an-end-to-the-speculation/
@libreoffice Would love to read your blog post carefully. But your blinking advertising for donating is very, very annoying. I cannot read an article when there is a moving picture just beside.
@libreoffice Announcing you'd rather not communicate is a -really- weird position to have for @tdforg
TDF didn't deal with administration properly, and on time, and now you have hurt developers who have been working diligently for the very software product you're trying to hoist up. Where's your honest apology to the contributors for that?
TDF treats transparency as being very bothersome, and well, good luck with your aspirations with #LibreOffice because to me both the actions and blogposts scream amateurism. Quite ironic considering the goals you described.
I hope you've read this reaction by a contributor but if not, here you can read it: https://mikekaganski.wordpress.com/2026/04/05/the-post-they-managed-to-avoid/
@libreoffice Good! Getting rid of corporate influence in your org is the way to go however painful it might seem.
Oracle promised to keep developing MySQL when they took over. Instead, MySQL has been slowly dying ever since because Oracle wants to sell their main product.
Red Hat promised to leave CentOS alone. They killed CentOS immediately. It's pretty tricky to be more evil than Oracle, but they managed somehow.
Corporate rot forced the Firefox team to abandon privacy guarantees.
@libreoffice I think this post needs some footnotes or context. There are one or two syntax/punctuation/phrasing choices that make things unclear.
Is this what you are replying to?
https://www.collaboraonline.com/blog/tdf-ejects-its-core-developers/
@libreoffice About "The origins of TDC are controversial.". I had to search what 'TDC' is. Maybe replace 'TDC' with 'The Document Collective (TDC)'?
@libreoffice
So, getting rid of active developers helps the project in exactly which way?
All I want to know is that LibreOffice - fully installable on the desktop for the individual - isn’t going away any time soon.
@libreoffice Reckless revisionist spin.
* "the companies that had supported OpenOffice.org until then would create a project to kill LibreOffice" is ridiculous.
* "One reason given for setting up the parallel organisation was the “alleged inefficiency” of the TDF team" It was all about using app stores.
* "the decision to forfeit TDF membership status of Collabora employees ... has resulted in a positive outcome for the third audit." It only just happened, how could it affect any audit.
@libreoffice So what happened exactly now?
Might be on me, because I've only been following the broad strokes of all the current office software beef, but this article is barely comprehensible to me.
@libreoffice "nobody could imagine that the companies that had supported OpenOffice.org until then would create a project to kill LibreOffice". What project is this reference to? Is this referring to the TDC? It's not clear in the article
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