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Our sense of meritocracy
A project that confuses meritocracy with the dominance of a single type of contributor fails to live up to its own values. And a project that bends to the interests of some contributors, at the expense of future generations, is a form of appropriation masked by the language of fairness.
Meritocracy is a complex, multifaceted concept that is worth grappling with in order to build something that future generations will be happy to inherit.
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Our sense of meritocracy - TDF Community Blog

Meritocracy is one of the founding principles of the free and open-source software movement. It is also one of the most controversial terms, and the gap between the different meanings people attribute to it is, in some projects, a source of real and …
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Tobias Ernst

@nicolaottomano @LibreOffice @The Document Foundation I know, so the question is how will this go forward now. This resembles the fallout when Libreoffice left Oracle back in the day, only with reversed roles. Now the FOSS side is left with no devlopers, back then it was the commercial side that had no interest in developing ...
@LibreOffice @The Document Foundation @nicolaottomano
Als Antwort auf Tobias Ernst

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nicolaottomano

@tobifant This is a slightly long yet interesting article about it

forum.linuxguides.de/core/inde…

LibreOffice am Abgrund: Wie die Document Foundation ihre eigenen Gründer vor die Tür setzte - Linux Guides Community

LibreOffice steckt in der schwersten Krise seit seiner Gründung. Die Document Foundation hat im April 2026 über 30 Kernentwickler aus ihren Gremien ausgeschlossen - darunter die Leute, die fast die Hälfte des gesamten Codes geschrieben haben.
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Als Antwort auf Café-Junkie

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nicolaottomano

@CafeJunkie This:
https://forum.linuxguides.de/core/index.php?article/54-libreoffice-am-abgrund-wie-die-document-foundation-ihre-eigenen-gründer-vor-die/

LibreOffice am Abgrund: Wie die Document Foundation ihre eigenen Gründer vor die Tür setzte - Linux Guides Community

LibreOffice steckt in der schwersten Krise seit seiner Gründung. Die Document Foundation hat im April 2026 über 30 Kernentwickler aus ihren Gremien ausgeschlossen - darunter die Leute, die fast die Hälfte des gesamten Codes geschrieben haben.
Linux Guides Community
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nicolaottomano

My 2 cents: I see the whole thing as a huge mistake. LibreOffice has been killed by years of slow improvements and poor decisions on UI. Now, that's the final blow.
My only issue is: now that OnlyOffice unveiled its real face and LibreOffice is terminally ill, we have not many options left. I'm thinking to switch to @CollaboraOffice
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Tobias Ernst

@nicolaottomano @Collabora Office @LibreOffice @The Document Foundation I am not so sure about the poor decisions on UI. What I cherish about LibreOffice is that the UI does not change completely every other year. This actually offers an opportunity to learn and become more proficient, whereas with MS Office you just give up at some point and stop using its full potential because you are fed up with having to re-learn every other year.
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nicolaottomano

@tobifant @CollaboraOffice I have to use MS Office on my company PC. The UI barely changed from 2007, with the exception of eye-candy parts and new functionalities. That's the great advantage of MSO: people in their 40s started learning how to use it at school... and they are familiar with the UI, making MSO the preferred choice at work.
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Tobias Ernst

@nicolaottomano @Collabora Office @LibreOffice @The Document Foundation Not at all. The more eye-candy there was, the less the keyboard combinations that we learned back in the day still worked. They are slowly being removed forcing us to ever more use the mouse. I hate it. Alt +L,G,O (in the German version) to insert a line above the current line in a table? Gone for good. Just one example out of ever so many.
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nicolaottomano

@JakobBoos @CollaboraOffice I agree with you but, in the other hand:
-It has a modern UI, which make it a smoother switch to people familiar with MS Office.
-Collabora Desktop and Web UIs are the same, so users don't have to learn two different tools.
-90% of people won't ever need the advanced functionalities. The other 10% could stay on MSO or OnlyOffice.
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Als Antwort auf nicolaottomano

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Jakob Boos

@nicolaottomano @CollaboraOffice

I agree with you, but ...

You know, that OnlyOffice sources have their origin in Russia? For me, that's the main problem with OnlyOffice and the reason to completely switch to LibreOffice and Collabora (in my Nextcloud instance),

But the new Euro-Office initiative is very interesting. I hope that the legal conflict there could be solved.

@Collabora Office @nicolaottomano
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