I have no way of actually verifying this, but it seems (according to certain parties' accusations) that whoever is calling the shots at The Document Foundation (i.e. the LibreOffice org) is pulling a Gnome Foundation and deciding to jettison whoever they don't like.
...but like... ten times worse?
Umm... egad. #FOSSDrama #ArentWeAllAdultsHere?
Mmmmkay, a Collabora <--> LibreOffice public online grudgematch sounds like a very odd and un-original #AprilFools joke, but it's somehow... not??
https://www.collaboraonline.com/blog/tdf-ejects-its-core-developers/
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/04/01/comment-about-collabora-blog-post/
What the heck? XD
RE: https://fosstodon.org/@ONLYOFFICE/116323756094840918
Quite the interesting fresh FOSS drama.
Curious to see how this will turn out. Two 🍺 on settlement.
Also, should the verdict go towards the Euro-Office fork will we see any precendence for other cases effectively weaking FOSS legal protection? Will distributors or integrators be impacted?
@Karlitschek being a clear FOSS native will surely have a proper strategy & plan forward laid out for this with his legal counsel. Or so one would hope.
Technically a pleasant product that one could only hope to be continued and advanced, ideally on combined man power of both parties.
#fossdrama #fosscompliance #onlyoffice #eurooffice #drama #foss #opensource
Quoting Alan Cox [@etchedpixels] at Twitter:
>> Mike McGrath for Red Hat: “We will always send our code upstream and abide by the open source licenses our products use, which includes the GPL.”
> https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hats-commitment-open-source-response-gitcentosorg-changes
Meanwhile:
>> Magnus Glantz of Red Hat: “I guess some people just still have not understood that free software (which open source originally was called), refers to free as in freedom, not free as in free beer, free labor or free money.”
> https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/problem-rocky-linux-free-beer-magnus-glantz/
It's all puff pieces about fear and freeloading that are old Microsoft grade.
And it speaks to the point. IBMHat thinks it “sells Red Hat Linux”, no it sells support and services. The code isn't really theirs to sell.
(Not when it's “100% Open Source”. ~ed.)
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🐦: https://twitter.com/EtchedPixels/status/1673610472224899072 / https://nitter.net/EtchedPixels/status/1673610472224899072
#RedHat vs #RockyLinux #IBMHat #FOSSdrama #DistroDrama #LinuxDrama #SourceCodeGatekeeping
ElasticCo made Elasticsearch an #opencore product w/ basic security features in a proprietary plugin.
Search Guard made basic ES security features an open core product w/ enterprise auth as a proprietary plugin.
ElasticCo freed code for security plugin recently and now accuses Search Guard of copying both proprietary and #FOSS code. #fossdrama
https://www.elastic.co/blog/dear-search-guard-users
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