https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mejmeeksHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Mon, 06 Apr 2026 07:34:16 +0000Ah - well, with many staff having been kicked out without a word of thanks or apology after, in some cases, decades of work, tens of thousands of commits, and huge amounts of love and effort poured into the project - it is perhaps fitting that a colleague from the Collabora team publicly thanks them for, and acknowledges at least a little of their contribution to LibreOffice. Do have a read.

]]>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:17:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47604518mejmeekshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47604518https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47604518I'm sorry it's confusing, perhaps an attempt to add humor to a bleak and dramatic change in the LibreOffice project has made it less than clear. The bald facts are fairly simple: The Document Foundation, now ~controlled by its non-programmer staff just ejected its main core code contributors based on complicated and apparently contrived reasons. Lots of non-profits get bogged down in pointless in-fighting that eats away at their purpose sadly.

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