If the “improved LibreOffice Online” was not funded why did you have the NLNet logo in your presentations of LOWA up to LibOCon 2022 and your talks about “LibreOffice P2P” are listed in the NLNet web site up to FOSDEM 2023?
The NLNet pages and your own slides keep showing that the “improved LibreOffice OnLine” was funded for more than 2 years.
That while you did not contribute to LibreOffice OnLine, you signed a partner agreement to sell COOL, you acted to kill LibreOffice OnLine, you even voted while in conflict of interests with LibreOffice OnLine and all of this without ever disclosing that you were funded to improve LibreOffice OnLIne while instead you were presenting LOWA/LibreOffice WASM as a project for the LibreOffice community.
It’s only by chance that I’ve noticed that your company got funded for 2 years to develop “LibreOffice P2P” to improve LibreOffice OnLine but LibreOffice OnLine never got any support or improvements so it seems like you kept the money rolling in only to fund your own product.
At the time I was pleased that you were working on an alternative way to have LibreOffice on the browser so that’s why I proposed to you, during board meeting, to officially present it to TDF and see if we could fund some of that work.
I guess you refused as the board would have had to do further checks and discovered that you were already misleading the board and the community by not disclosing you were being funded to improve LibreOffice OnLine but you had no intention of actually doing it as we can all see.
Everything could have been simpler and ethical if you informed NLNet in October 2020 that you could not fulfil the project description as LibreOffice OnLine was forked by your business partner but you choose not to.
You also choose not to tell NLNet to put your company logo and change the description to state that it was a project run by your own company to develop your own product based on LibreOffice. That would have been perfectly OK and you would have had all the rights to do what you wanted with it.
It would have been very easy, just look at this other example:
https://nlnet.nl/project/InfiniteCanvas/
There is again the question of why since last year Collabora Productivity never got in touch with NLNet to tell them that they should not use the LibreOffice OnLine logo as they killed it by forking it and the Collabora Online logo should be used instead.
Apart from that the message is clearly stating that the funds will toward improving their own product Collabora Online, built on LibreOffice technology, without making any claims in relation to LibreOffice or LibreOffice OnLine.
At the end you chose to deceive everyone for your personal interests and, as it seemed to work well for you, you continued to do so while being the chairman of the board leading to create even more damages for TDF.
I’ll try to make it easier for you to understand my question:
is the code that you are writing going to result in features available to the users to have “Real-time collaboration between several, distributed LibreOffice instances”?
The description leads to many interpretations including one where you get funded to “re-architect LibreOffice Writer’s comment (and later on change tracking) implementation, to make use of a suitable CRDT data structure” and then you create your own product that benefits from those changes in LibreOffice but that LibreOffice users won’t ever see as the usable features are only in your product.
Seeing how much you have deceived and mislead people in the board and the community it would be great to know what the actual plan is.
The more you try to mislead people the more we can see confirmations of what I’ve stated making your position even worse.
We’ll contact NLNet to see what information the have to share and we’ll ask them to remove the LibreOffice where the funding was not for the benefit for the LibreOffice Community and LibreOffice OnLine logo as it should not be used at all.