RE: https://fosstodon.org/@libreoffice/116351160646659684

This is written as a rebuttal to something, but it’s not clear to me what the rebuttal is to.

I remember seeing a presentation from the folks that would eventually found LibreOffice back at Linux 2005 and it came across as a group of people who couldn’t work with upstream who decided to deliberately picked a license that meant upstream couldn’t take their patches because they didn’t like not being in control of a project that they were contributing to. They became an official independent fork with its own brand some years later. I’ve never really trusted things their marketing has said since then, but I can’t even tell what this is saying other than ‘we accidentally made a cartel masquerading as a non-profit and some unspecified bad people were stopping us from changing’.