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So OnlyOffice is not FOSS because of the AGPL additions that can't be met (you have to use the trademark, but aren't allowed to use the trademark). So EuroOffice can't be built legally.

LibreOffice and Collabora Office are in a fight about governance and contributions. The codebase is old.

"GNOME office" (Abiword, Gnumeric) isn't really developed anymore.

KDE Calligra Office is modern and beautiful, but lacking features.

I think I go back to LaTeX and markdown for all word processing documents. But for spreadsheets? I don't know yet. I will check Calligra Sheets, but I'm not tech savvy enough to contribute seriously.

#libreoffice #collaboraoffice #onlyoffice #eurooffice #texlatex #markdown #calligra #KDE #foss

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Andreas Zieritz 1d ago

@lerothas
LibreOffice works great so far, so I am not afraid of anything.

Besides that, the really important choice is which format you are using when saving your work.

If some other software is better in a couple of years, so be it.

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Stefan 'lerothas' D.

1d ago

@anthrazit
Well, I am. Collabora's employees are doing the most contributions to LibreOffice, but are now excluded from comittees and decisions. I'm unsure, how long LO can go without Collabora if they are pulling the plug from their side...

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Andreas Zieritz 1d ago

@lerothas

For me it seems like a decision which needed to be done. In that case the open source and the commercial world couldn't be held together anymore.

Probably both of the projects thrive better once they are split.

Good article in German here...
https://forum.linuxguides.de/core/index.php?article/54-libreoffice-am-abgrund-wie-die-document-foundation-ihre-eigenen-gr%C3%BCnder-vor-die/

LibreOffice am Abgrund: Wie die Document Foundation ihre eigenen Gründer vor die Tür setzte - Linux Guides Community

LibreOffice steckt in der schwersten Krise seit seiner Gründung. Die Document Foundation hat im April 2026 über 30 Kernentwickler aus ihren Gremien ausgeschlossen - darunter die Leute, die fast die Hälfte des gesamten Codes geschrieben haben. Der Trick: Erst verklagt man den Partner, dann schliesst man seine Mitarbeiter mit Verweis auf die laufende Klage aus. Collabora, das Unternehmen hinter den ausgeschlossenen Entwicklern, schlägt mit einem eigenen Desktop-Produkt zurück, das technologisch einen klaren Bruch mit dem alten LibreOffice darstellt. Droht LibreOffice das gleiche Schicksal wie Apache OpenOffice? Eine Analyse der Eskalationsspirale - vom gescheiterten Branding-Experiment 2020 über den Krieg um die Cloud bis zum endgültigen Bruch im April 2026.

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Lioh 1d ago

@anthrazit the article is very long. Sadly length is not necessarily a qualifier for quality. The author reflects a one-sided perspective and (intentionally?) harms TDF. LibreOffice and the legal and technical structures behind it are well built and resilient. A bundled web App (same as ONLYOFFICE) is not a reliable software solution. It's much worse than any Java dependency. @lerothas

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Andreas Zieritz

@Lioh @lerothas

I am not to judge if this article is one-sided or not - in my opinion it is well written.
But I agree with you that LibreOffice seems to be in good shape, and I am happy to continue my support.

More important than the question about which suite is better is the question about the format. And here I really hope that the OpenDocument format will continue its momentum and become the de facto standard for office documents.