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The gloves are officially off in the battle of open source office suites. Last week, I covered the controversy surrounding Euro-Office, a Nextcloud-backed fork of OnlyOffice that recently launched in response to significant concerns over the existing project's code base.
This week, LibreOffice and its nonprofit parent The Document Foundation (TDF) clashed with the team behind Collabora Online, a web-based version of LibreOffice, after months of rising tension between the two projects.
In a nutshell:
- TDF has a history of engaging in activities that present a conflict of interest (awarding development contracts to companies represented on the board, etc.)
- After years of stalled progress, German authorities eventually intervened and forced the foundation to undergo several audits to maintain their non-profit status
- Earlier this year, they released a new code of ethics, which Collabora was quick to raise concerns over (improper oversight, imbalance of power, and impact to Collabora members – which include 7 of LibreOffice's top 10 all-time contributors)
- Last week, TDF moved forward with a new set of community bylaws that removed all of Collabora's members due to a stipulation that limits the representation of members employed by entities in legal disputes with the foundation (it's unclear to me what legal disputes exist between the two entities)
And here we are. Collabora isn't happy and has now announced plans to create a lighter alternative with its own code base, while LibreOffice is standing firm in their decision.
Similar to last week's debacle, it's not clear whose side the average user should be on (if either). But perhaps the more important question is – how much of a distraction is this from developing viable alternatives to the platforms we should actually be rallying against (Microsoft Office, Google Drive, etc.)?
In other news:
- The Immich team announced they're developing a managed backup service with end-to-end encryption and are looking for feedback from the community via a 5-minute survey
- MXroute, a cheap e-mail hosting provider popular in homelabs, found itself under public scrutiny for the way its founder conducted himself in response to various customer incidents (much of it somewhat understandable – but doxing someone to their employer is definitely taking things too far)
- Back in February, the developer behind ErsatzTV announced the project was being discontinued as it had outgrown its initial scope. The repository was officially archived this week, though work on a potential reboot seems to have already begun.
- Tailscale updated their pricing plans to make monthly bills more predictable while also increasing the number of users allowed on the free personal plan from three to six
- On the topic of popular services revisiting their subscriptions, Pushover (notifications) also pushed a favorable plan update this week that allows API users to upgrade message quotas via application pools instead of per application
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