What are the plausible motivations for the TDF board members here? Do they pay themselves with org funds, or is it just a fight for turf and clout? I think identifying factors like this might be helpful, because if these factors could be eliminated or reduced it might save future orgs from infestations of the sort of people who seek out boards to sit on, as they'd find a better opportunity for parasitism in some other org.

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bokchoi 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

From their blog: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/04/01/comment-...

> The Community Bylaws require that employees of companies involved in legal disputes with The Document Foundation be removed from TDF membership because, in the past, people made decisions in the interest of their employers rather than in the interest of The Document Foundation.

and

> The Document Foundation could have lost its charitable status, which would have had unforeseen consequences.

I'm not sure why they would have lost charitable status, but that seems like a legitimate concern.

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khalic 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

They’re relaunching Libre Office online apparently, they don’t want competitors on their board I’m guessing

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chuckadams 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Possibly they don't want corporations on the board that are actively sandbagging an initiative that competes with that corporation's products. But much like the RubyGems fiasco, all the decisions seem very opaque, so I can't say whether that's actually the case.

	▲	refulgentis 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		While anything is possible, we can rest assured that if there was any evidence of subterfuge / sandbagging, given our own involvement in the situation, they would have shared it at some point, surely in their main response.