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Wow that list of commits is brutal. Libre Office is dead. Just another corporate take over of an open source project.
So why not just fork it under a new name.
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Oh shit, I’m so sorry Noel. That’s awful!
Please do read TDF's side of the story as well: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/04/01/comment-...
Essentially this 100% confirms the Collabora story, just elaborates a bit on how the administrative takeover was done.
It's the "tyranny of structure"
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Can you really take over a project anybody can fork? Freedom is just a name change away.
I'm pretty sure most "normies" who are at all aware of what MS Office is, and what, if any, of its alternatives are, still use OpenOffice and think that it is the no-cost office suite. LibreOffice already has problems with brand recognition, last thing we need is another fork.
Fix the title. No one seems to recognize "TDF" (The Document Foundation) despite their daily dramatics, myself included.
Wow that list of commits is brutal. Libre Office is dead. Just another corporate take over of an open source project.
Based on that table it looks like “LibreOffice the name” ejected “LibreOffice the software development project” basically. Although, it isn’t really a corporate takeover, right? There was one company that was doing most of the work, now they’ve been ejected. So why not just fork it under a new name.
Again? Sigh. Isn't that how we got LibreOffice in the first place? (From OpenOffice.)
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Based on that table it looks like “LibreOffice the name” ejected “LibreOffice the software development project” basically. Although, it isn’t really a corporate takeover, right? There was one company that was doing most of the work, now they’ve been ejected. So why not just fork it under a new name.
> So why not just fork it under a new name. Again? Sigh. Isn't that how we got LibreOffice in the first place? (From OpenOffice.)
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From the article: "These days some at TDF seem to emphasize equality instead." I'm not sure exactly what is meant by that. My guess, having some experience with board-sitter parasites, is they're just appealing to empty principles to create the illusion of being important to the organization, because they're unable or unwilling to make more tangible and substantial contributions. When somebody can't justify their rol…
These parasitic patterns are also visible in lower management levels, not only boards (not disputing your point, just adding to it).