If Collabora developers will stop contributing directly to LibreOffice, will there be a free version of Collabora Classic? Can fixes/new features in Collabora Classic be picked up by LibreOffice developers (through GPL)? Or does this mean abandoning Collabora Classic and focusing entirely on Collabora Onine and the new Collabora Office?
So Collabora Office Classic is important for a number of our customers and we expect to continue to support that for years ahead; currently I don’t believe we have plans to offer more than a demo version as a free download. Who takes what feature or fix and from where is a complicated topic that is hard to predict. It is clear that our main development focus and excitement is around the new Collabora Office and Online which are based on the OpenOffice then LibreOffice heritage too of course - I hope that helps.
Hi Michael (@mmeeks )
Thank you for the quick answer and clarification. Looking forward to see the upcoming development of Collabora Office and Online. Now more than ever, a transparent, fully functional European alternative to MS Office is badly needed. As is supporting Open Document files instead of chasing around the elusive MS file formats! Thanks!
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