[$] Digging into drama at The Document Foundation

The Document Foundation (TDF) is
the nonprofit entity behind the LibreOffice productivity suite. Most of the
time, the software takes the spotlight, but that has changed in the past few weeks, and
not for pleasant reasons. TDF has revoked
foundation membership status from about 30 people who work for or have
contracting status with Collabora. In
response, Collabora has announced
plans to focus on a "entirely new, cut-down, differentiated Collabora Office"
project and reduce its involvement with LibreOffice. TDF's representatives claim that
its actions were necessary to maintain the foundation's nonprofit status, while other
community members assert that this is part of a power grab. The facts seem to
indicate that there are legitimate issues to be addressed, but it is unclear
that TDF needed to go so far as to disenfranchise all Collabora-affiliated contributors.