Is it something aside from their CEO?

It’s the CEO and founder and that’s plenty.

Brave is the commercial arm of a far right hate group.

I’d say that’s worse than a news website with paywalls.

They had freedom of movement if they wanted to live anywhere else.

New members don’t get any opt outs. And if you think full membership is a punishment, just stay on your island and leave us alone.

Fuck no. Full EU or stay out.

How can you decompile anything that hasn’t been released?

I think you’re conflating two things.

Chinese models are kneecapping Tiananmen Square and Winnie the Pooh, they’ll happily do anything else.

Probably still hiding in Israel playing Call of Duty on Xbox.

Have you read the article at all?

Unlike you I actually did.

This was no “we evaluated, it did not work”.

there were reports late last year that the officials were running into formatting issues such as blank pages when opening Office documents in Collabora and vice versa.

It was “we don’t like this. Hey, Bob, please tell us how it doesn’t work” - “Sure, I had this one document which rendered wrongly” - “see, it doesn’t work, now we can scratch the project”.

Vivid imagination. Nothing of that kind is in the article but you seem to have made up your mind.

based on LibreOffice Online

That bit is wrong. Yes, the underlying tech is based on LO but the web frontend is not. IIRC LO Online is about rendering the regular desktop GUI to web technologies whereas Collabora Office uses a new GUI written for the web and LO works in the background. I think not being true LO enough is what caused a rift between The Document Foundation is Collabora a while ago but I’m not too sure.

TDF actually announced to revive LO Online from cold storage to compete against Collabora. Fantastic…

https://assets.theregister.com/2026/03/02/libreoffice_online_deatticized/

https://itsfoss.com/news/document-foundation-collabora-feud/

95% of the time Microsoft formats render fine ¯_(ツ)_/¯.

Ask the Danes if that’s true. Apparently not so much.

You write “edge case” yourself.

In my case yes. In case of the Danish public sector it’s either not an edge case or 5% broken documents are way too much. I’m not a Dane in the public sector to tell which it is but it appears to be one of those two.

But the way forward is not playing catch.

Forward not, but it is to deal with countless of existing documents. There is no way around this fact. That’s like expecting Steam Decks to be successful by not providing compatibility with existing Windows games. Valve tried already with the first generation of Steam Machines / SteamOS 1.x & 2.x. Didn’t work.

Are native Steam Linux Runtime native games a better path forward than relying in Proton? Absolutely. Will there ever be a Linux version of Diablo 4? No.

A community project like LibreOffice can afford not to care much about legacy MS Office documents. A commercial enterprise that expects to get public contracts absolute cannot. And what’s so insane about this is that Collabora is actually the main contractor for Valve on SteamOS and yet they don’t transfer the business learnings from that to their own office suite.

Yeah, because I never have to switch Proton or Wine versions or use some launch options or something.

95% of the time they don’t. And that’s the point.

And, come on, legacy documents don’t render correctly? Guess what, try to open old Microsoft Office shit in new Microsoft office programs: that shit breaks, like, a lot. Not even Microsoft can stay Microsoft compatible 😅.

Well, if Collabora Office was as compatible as MS Office, Denmark would have switched. But it’s not and denial won’t change anything. I have an old .doc (not .docx) file that my employer needs for a weird edge case and the only way I can open it under Linux is the Office.com web suite.

Again, Collabora is a commercial enterprise. They need to act like it and throw resources at massively improving file format compatibility, no matter how messy MS formats are.

Yeah, and that would work, if Microsofts format actually could be considered a standard in any way. But it doesn’t.

Win32, DirectX, etc. aren’t standard either and yet Wine/Proton are proper clean room reverse engineered solutions good enough that >95% of the time users don’t see any difference.

Microsoft update breaks stuff, you fix it

Problem is that even legacy documents are not properly read.

so you have a lot of users telling their bosses “LibreOffice bad”.

Collabora is a commercial enterprise. Collabora Office is FOSS just like Proton but just like Proton there is a company behind it that bets their income on proper compatibility. Difference is that Valve works on that compatibility and Collabora doesn’t.

Collabora need to get their act together and automate document round-tripping.

Aber das ist nicht gewünscht weil es angeblich die Fahrer verwirrt die Fahrer mündig machen würde, aber sie sollen dumm bleiben und Geld in der Werkstatt lassen.

Habe es für dich korrigiert

Importing works fine

Quote says that it literally does not. The “and vice versa” bit of the quote is about both directions not properly working.

issues arise after one person exports from LibreOffice, another edits with MS Office, and they repeat a few iterations of that.

Tests for that can be automated since 15 or so years ago. Doesn’t even need any Claude or something.

While no evaluations were conducted for this pilot, there were reports late last year that the officials were running into formatting issues such as blank pages when opening Office documents in Collabora and vice versa.

MS Office document importers need to have similar backing as Valve did with Proton. Hopefully Euro Office gets it.

I am not sure why the world didn’t switch to that

Not invented here syndrome by PHP Foundation and downstream users use whatever the default is.

Most features are within the embedded web view, though. Valve has frequently added or tweaked features without ever pushing a Steam client update.

Well, no law maker on earth cares about the latter and no court has decided that prompting for a bit (in this case pasting an existing Tweet) grands original copyright, so whatever we may think, it’s public domain.

Personally, I think copyright as been abused so much, I have little sympathy for it.

Interesting project but funny that he thinks the GPLv3 license text matters for not copyrightable autogenerated code.

Either it’s public domain because it’s not a product of human creative work or it’s copyright violation of the everything Claude was trained on.