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This is hard to read without context. From I can gather - there is a company, called “Collabora”, that sells LibreOffice consultancy and LibreOffice “online” i
by shp0ngle 6y ago
This is hard to read without context.
From I can gather - there is a company, called “Collabora”, that sells LibreOffice consultancy and LibreOffice “online” installations. This company now contributes majority of development to LibreOffice. And lead the development of “LibreOffice Online”, maybe?
And from what I can get, their business is not doing that well.
This e-mail is written by someone from that company.
- corbet 6y agoThe context is currently a few lines down on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23789659 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23789659
- ghaff 6y agoFundamentally, OpenOffice and then LibreOffice never became a serious business for any company with significant resources. It arguably circled nearby with Novell and IBM at various times but nothing ever really clicked. Now there are 40 developers. Mostly from a company that apparently isn't doing that great. LibreOffice has always been understaffed relative to the competition. But it wouldn't shock me if there were more HR people associated with GSuite than there are LibreOffice developers.
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- shp0ngle 6y agoI did not see that link when I posted this :)
- mjw1007 6y agoYes, some of it seems oddly written. On first reading, I thought this bit was the author reporting that other people are frustrated with TDF, and that this indicates that there is a problem: « Frustration with how TDF markets and positions its 'product' (LibreOffice) against the ecosystem that contributes the majority of the coding work is at an all-time high. » But I think actually this should be read as « We (Collabora) are more frustrated with the TDF than ever. »
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