[$] Digging into drama at The Document Foundation

The Document Foundation (TDF) isthe nonprofit entity behind the LibreOffice productivity suite. Most of thetime, the software takes the spotlight, but that has changed in the past few weeks, andnot for pleasant reasons. TDF has revokedfoundation membership status from about 30 people who work for or havecontracting status with Collabora. Inresponse, Collabora has announcedplans to focus on a "entirely new, cut-down, differentiated Collabora Office"project and reduce its involvement with LibreOffice. TDF's representatives claim thatits actions were necessary to maintain the foundation's nonprofit status, while othercommunity members assert that this is part of a power grab. The facts seem toindicate that there are legitimate issues to be addressed, but it is unclearthat TDF needed to go so far as to disenfranchise all Collabora-affiliated contributors.