✧✦Catherine✦✧okay so what's going on with office software
the OnlyOffice mess is garden variety xenophobia that people who know better on here are amplifying, that's easy
what the fuck is going on with LibreOffice and Collabora
penguin42@whitequark as I understand it Collaobra are a company that has lots of LO long time contributors and sell support etc - they also have a (open source) web based version with collaborative editing. LO was doing that a while ago but didn't get far and decided not to continue; but when Collabora announced their release, someone in TDF made an announcement that LO was working on it again (with no new code?), and then somehow the Collabora folks were pushed out of the board as competing interests.
Rupert Reynolds@penguin42 @whitequark I am so out of date! Last I heard was when Microsoft gave up trying to trip over other office products and started supporting open standards. Was that a decade ago?
I smell signs of skulduggery, and I doubt it's all on one side...
Meanwhile I've been using Libre on Linux because it works, and Collabora on Android, for the same reason, blissfully unaware of all this manoeuvring :-)
edit: corrected trying error
@RupertReynolds @whitequark While it could be skullduggery, the other valid explanation is that even MS don't know how their format works.
@penguin42 @whitequark Fair point :-)