Slashdot reader [1]darwinmac writes:

> The Document Foundation (TDF), the organization behind LibreOffice, has decided to bring back its LibreOffice Online project which been inactive since 2022. Collabora, a company that was a major contributor to the [2]original LibreOffice Online , [3]is not pleased with this development. After the original project went dormant, Collabora forked the code and created its own product, Collabora Online.

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> Collaboras Michael Meeks, who also sits on the TDF board, reacted to the TDFs decision by saying that a fully supported, free online version already exists in the form of Collabora Online, and that resurrecting a dead repository makes little sense when an active, open community around the online suite already exists.

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> For now, The Document Foundation plans to reopen the old repository for new contributions. The organization has issued a warning that the code is not ready for live deployment and users should wait until the development team confirms it is stable.



[1] https://slashdot.org/~darwinmac

[2] https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/10/15/010253/libreoffice-going-online-and-mobile

[3] https://www.neowin.net/news/collabora-clashes-with-libreoffice-over-move-to-revive-libreoffice-online