The Document Foundation expelled over 30 LibreOffice core developers from membership this week—including seven of the project’s top 10 all-time committers. The ejected developers, all employed by Collabora Productivity, contribute approximately 80% of LibreOffice’s codebase. TDF cited vague “legal disputes” and conflict-of-interest bylaws but provided no specifics. Collabora responded by announcing plans to fork the project.
In der letzten Woche wurde bekannt, dass ein Konsortium (Nextcloud, Ionos und weitere) unter dem Namen Euro-Office das lettische ONLYOFFICE forkt. Darauf reagierte die ONLYOFFICE-Firma Ascensio System SIA am 30. März 2026 mit einem Blogpost, in dem Euro-Office ein Bruch der Lizenzbedingungen vorgeworfen wird. ONLYOFFICE steht unter der AGPL v3 Lizenz, die durch weitere Klauseln ergänzt wurde, was zulässig ist. Doch gerade um diese Zusätze dreht es sich bei den Streitigkeiten.
Beim zweiten Fall sind sich die Document Foundation (TDF) und das Unternehmen Collabora Productivity in die Haare geraten. Dabei geht es im Wesentlichen um meritokratisches Hierarchie-Geplänkel, wie es in FLOSS-Projekten häufig vorkommt:
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Come and hear how to integrate Collabora Online – a powerful online office suite based on LibreOffice code – with web applications. Learn about how Collabora developers helped to develop solutions by extending the WOPI-like API and PostMessage API of Collabora Online.
Come and hear how you can integrate LibreOffice Online into your webservice!
Web Application Open Platform Interface better known as WOPI is a protocol that enables a client to access and change files stored on a server. The protocol was first released as v0.1 by Microsoft in January 2012,[1] but as of November 2020 the current specification is v12.2.[2] The protocol has been adopted by applications outside of Microsoft, such as by Collabora Online, Google, ownCloud and Nextcloud.[
The story of how we make LibreOffice Online scale and perform securely for a large number of concurrent users.
As LibreOffice moves online, it provides a Free Software alternative to Office365 using a rather similar high-fidelity, full-feature architecture. This brings a number of interesting challenges we've had to solve. Performance challenges include - how can we run 1000 concurrent users on a reasonably sized server ? How can we share as much as possible of the bootstrapping and setup functionality to reduce memory usage ? Can we really use Linux's hugepages to reduce TLB cost ? Security is also an interesting concern with the challenge of building a layered model to ensure that no one bad-actor can compromise other user's documents despite having such an extensive attack surface.
Come and hear the story of the development of LibreOffice Online how Collabora solves these problems, and how you can get it in the CODE project. Also catch up with the latest and greatest feature/function improvements coming in LibreOffice 5.1 - our annual FOSDEM release, and find out how you can best get involved with LibreOffice.
https://archive.fosdem.org/2016/schedule/event/scaling_libreoffice_online/