As somebody else pointed out, I read the entire article and still can't figure out what the author is actually talking about. That said, this sounds an awful lot like the reddit moderator problem: when you rely on unpaid volunteers, they become activist crusaders.

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ranger_danger 6 hours ago | parent [-]

I'm assuming this is related to the previous drama back in 2020:

https://lwn.net/Articles/833233/

Apparently TDF wanted to host LibreOffice Online for free, when it had previously been a source-only project. Collabora didn't like that as they did 95% of the development and wanted to be able to sell support for their own version, but they didn't want to be competing against TDF's version at the same time.

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chuckadams 5 hours ago | parent [-]

I can understand Collabora not being jazzed about it, but is there anything in the license that would prevent a third party who is neither Collabora nor TDF from doing the same? I mean, it's one Dockerfile away from anyone doing it, right? May as well be TDF who distributes an official binary.

	▲	ranger_danger 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I don't think so, I think it's more about TDF considering their involvement at that point a conflict of interest.