Comment about Collabora blog post - TDF Community Blog

Many people have asked The Document Foundation for its official position on what Collabora announced in a blog post. This is not the first announcement of this kind in FLOSS environments, nor will it be the last. Collabora feels that it has to invest in a specific product that differs from traditional, full-featured office suites such as LibreOffice. They are, of course, free to take this approach based on the MPL licence. However, Collabora has framed this as a direct consequence of the Membership Committee’s decision to remove Collabora employees from TDF membership based on the recently approved Community Bylaws. The Community Bylaws require that employees of companies involved in legal disputes with The Document Foundation be removed from TDF membership because, in the past, people made decisions in the interest of their employers rather than in the interest of The Document Foundation. We would prefer to avoid further discussion about who is responsible for what, as this would lead to endless debates that would not benefit the project as a whole (i.e. The Document Foundation, its ecosystem companies, and its volunteer contributors). Unfortunately, a series of wrong decisions in the past have turned into an ongoing problem which has