@libreoffice @tdforg More innuendo and political spin to justify ejecting all the most significant contributors to TDF's success just to clear the way for forking Collabora Online. When you start respecting those people I will start respecting you.
@libreoffice #alt4u "Our sense of meritocracy" written on an open scroll
@libreoffice @tdforg The future belongs to those who show up.
@libreoffice@fosstodon.org @tdforg@fosstodon.org
For the record: I firmly believe than meritocracy do not exist, but I agree with the substance of the text
@libreoffice @tdforg More innuendo and political spin to justify ejecting all the most significant contributors to TDF's success just to clear the way for forking Collabora Online. When you start respecting those people I will start respecting you.
@contrarian@mstdn.plus @libreoffice@fosstodon.org @tdforg@fosstodon.org
Kicking out corporation is always a good move #changemymind
@linarphy
How about when the "corporation" is just the company the developers set up so they could earn a living while they worked on the free software?
@contrarian@mstdn.plus @libreoffice@fosstodon.org @tdforg@fosstodon.org
I’m for digital commons. Meaning that I believe in shared governance. By design, a company has to make money, and its governance is driven by this goal.
We already saw a lot of companies, which were exactly what you describe ("developers set up so they could earn a living while they worked on the free software"), taking a project lead and becoming basically project owner. From that, it’s easy to become Oracle/Apache/RedHat and mute community voice.
It’s easy to spit on "foundation administration", but a common healthy governance needs a structure. Maybe the current one is not the best, but we should work on allowing users to have an impact on the project, and I think it’s on the right track.
Meritocracy is shit. People allowed to decide software milestone/direction should also be people that don’t contribute at all to it.
@libreoffice @tdforg Are you talking about Collabora, ONLYOFFICE? Please be clear!
@libreoffice @tdforg Meritocracy is one of those situations that sound noble, but are meaningless without definition and discussion with the whole organization. At worst it is just in-group supremacy. At best it is a way for the org as a whole to put decision making in trustworthy people.
Meritocracy is attractive to those who believe themselves to be meritorious enough to have the right to decide who else shall be considered meritorious. Not so much to people who are used to being considered unmeritorious, or just have an interest in democracy.
I did try to read the blog, but since the page consisted solely of a rather stylish spinning graphic I have to assume that I am not considered sufficiently meritorious to even read your thoughts on the subject. 🤷
@libreoffice @tdforg My 2 cents: I see the whole thing as a huge mistake. LibreOffice has been killed by years of slow improvements and poor decisions on UI. Now, that's the final blow.
My only issue is: now that OnlyOffice unveiled its face and LibreOffice is terminally ill, we have not many options left.
@tobifant @libreoffice @CollaboraOffice @tdforg I have to use MS Office on my company PC. The UI barely changed from 2007, with the exception of eye-candy parts and new functionalities. That's the great advantage of MSO: people in their 40s started learning how to use it at school... and they are familiar with the UI, making MSO the preferred choice at work.
@libreoffice @tdforg
Steht die Nachricht irgendwie in Zusammenhang mit den kürzlichen Projektdiskussionen?
Etwas mehr Kontext wäre dann gut....
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@tobifant @libreoffice @tdforg AFAIK, TDF employs no developers. They were all paid by Collabora.
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