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by grandinj 76 days ago
Collabora was unhappy about the LOOL revival, but not enough to leave.

It was only when TDF contrived reasons to expel Collabora people that Collabora decided to leave.

(Full Disclosure: I am one of the Collabora people expelled)
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salawat 76 days ago
So what were the contrived reasons? I navigated getting coolwsd built before, but never quite got my user management layer for Nextcloud perfected to the point of going live... I thought it was a good piece of kit, but was a little bit skeptical of the branding divergence at the time. Something about it kinda just felt like drama waiting to happen. Was that it do you think? Or something else. Will keep an eye on the project regardless.
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rurban 76 days ago
TDF cites a lawsuit between TDF and Collabora, causing all Collabora employees being removed from the TDF board (not community). Which makes sense.

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/04/01/comment-...

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quikee 76 days ago
"...being removed from the TDF board"

Not from the board, (implies board of directors), but from TDF membership (board of trustees). This essentially means you have no voting power and no benefits, but you're still free to still contribute by fixing bugs, adding new features, mentoring, code review,... ("community"). This are all the things that would benefit TDF by getting more money from donations (and then use that money for useful things that are mentioned in this TDF blog post).

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chris_wot 71 days ago
What lawsuit?!?
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chris_wot 76 days ago
Oh shit, I’m so sorry Noel. That’s awful!
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mksaunders2 75 days ago
Please do read TDF's side of the story as well: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/04/01/comment-...
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torginus 74 days ago
I read it, and was hoping I would be more sympathetic to their side, but it was essentially 'they violated the rules our newly added non-contributor board members set, and by those rules, we kicked them out'.

Essentially this 100% confirms the Collabora story, just elaborates a bit on how the administrative takeover was done.

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chris_wot 71 days ago
Not just this, it the way the vote was announced seems very, very bad. Italo may have found legal issues, but one of the things he said was that legal action was being taken by Collabora. That… doesn’t seem to be the case.

Italo and co removed some very dedicated contributors from the TDF. What an absolute disaster.

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