


Not wanting to emulate Apache OpenOffice, TDF started TDF with a body of abandoned code with no maintenance or credible prospects forįuture development. Since then, development on LOOL has come to a halt without Collabora'sĬontributions, there wasn't much to sustain an ongoing project. Despite efforts on all sides to find a solution, Collabora stopped working on LOOL later that year,Ĭhoosing instead to continue to develop that code outside the TDF under its Revenue to support LibreOffice developers when everything was available forįree among other things, Collabora wanted a clearer path toward making The development work for LOOL, began to sour. The relationship between TDF and Collabora, the company doing the bulk of Into a state of the art cloud application".

Or so that work picked up in 2015 when TDF announced that LOOL would be " developed LOOL, which allowsĬollaborative editing of documents, has been under development for a decade The development of LibreOffice and related software. The Document Foundation is, of course, the entity charged with furthering No specific projects were named as the first intendedĭiscussion made it clear that the unhappiness around LOOL has yet to fadeĪway, and that the Foundation still has some work to do when it comes toĭefining its relationship with its corporate members. Seemingly simple proposal for an "attic" that would become the home ofĪbandoned projects. In mid-December, Thorsten Behrens, a board member for the Document Foundation (TDF),
