Canoe
April 1, 2026, 8:00pm
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This is quite possibly the most bizarre news I’ve heard for months regarding TDF and LibreOffice..
https://www.collaboraonline.com/blog/tdf-ejects-its-core-developers/
I can’t understand why they’d stand on their own feet by doing this? Reading through the multitude of links Michael Meeks posted, holy politics Batman! Just a messy situation. Here’s hoping that there’s a way forwards. The one thing we genuinely need more cohesion on is the classical “Office Suite”
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It’s 1 april…and not a joke
Canoe
April 1, 2026, 8:42pm
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Yep, I thought “ohhhh, this is an April Fools joke..!” then my heart just sank.
My thought was ‘this can’t be good’.
Sad sure…but to be honest I never liked LibreOffice(OnlyOffice is much better) but still, it’s sad this dumb stuff happens in Open source.
Well then again that what’s happening when you invite a bunch of “does” people in Open Source.
The latest statement from The Document Foundation adding to their assertion that their non-profit status was at risk:
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...
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes
Not a lawyer, so not going to comment further.
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Bink
April 5, 2026, 12:06pm
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Euro-Office popped up on my radar today, as a fork of OnlyOffice that’s currently in the works, although pending some legal wrangling with OnlyOffice.
It seeks to make development and contribution more open and transparent, as the European answer to Microsoft Office going forward.
Euro-Office is an upcoming FLOSS office suite and collaborative software platform based on OnlyOffice that provides editors for documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and PDFs. The software includes web-based, desktop, and mobile applications designed for document creation, editing, and collaborative work.
The project began in March 2026 in a quest to gain full independence from Microsoft Office being used in EU public computers.
One of the first changes made to the Euro-Office codebase was to...
Yeah I heard about it maby in future it can be an good alternative?!
The Document Foundation has published a Q&A in response to media articles and forum comments about the dispute:
Over the past week, a number of articles have appeared in the media and comments have been posted on forums containing questions – some explicitly stated and others implied – directed at The Document Foundation. We have done our best to gather all...
Estimated reading time: 11 minutes
This one is easier to follow than the previous statement that I posted above.
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Most of their work is irrelevant, anyway.
Scientific writing is done with \LaTeX and spreadsheets are done in MS Excel or Google Spreadsheets. As everybody knows, presentations are cognitively lame. The only office application left is draw. Never used.