Comment by vntok

3 days ago

> The project welcomes contributions from true believers in open source. As the majority of people at Collabora are such believers, we expect them to continue contributing when the time comes.

Kids, that's a perfect example of institutionalized passive-aggressive behavior.

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cge  3 days ago

It's strange. I started reading about this expecting that I'd support TDF's position against a company with a somewhat dubious open-non-open split, with a reasonable claim about conflict of interest, but the behavior of the TDF side seems sufficiently toxic that it's difficult to support them.

In similar behavior, one of the votes against the community bylaws that seem to have resulted resulted in the expulsions was "If the Board majority group insists on proceeding with this misguided and premature motion, I vote NO". Those in favor decided that the vote was conditional and not valid, because "this motion is neither misguided nor premature". They then proceeded to tell others complaining about the decision that they were violating community standards in doing so.

As far as I can tell, the invalidated vote made no difference to the outcome; it is difficult for me see a legitimate motivation for the interpretation of the vote.

  • tpmoney  2 days ago

    Yeah, it's clear from reading things that there's a lot of personal animosity around all of this, and Italo Vignoli's resignation[1] makes it clear that everyone has mud all over themselves. But that said, it's almost impossible to read that voting exchange[2] as anything other than a deliberate and petty steamrolling of dissent by the current majority. Even being extremely charitable and supposing that the fact that not everyone is native to the english language, it seems impossible to reconcile the decision to not count this vote or record the dissenting comments because it was "unclear" with the supplied evidence that they recorded a similar dissenting "conditional" vote just weeks prior.

    Follow on that with the removals from the members list (which as near as I can gather is removing eligible voters from the delayed but mandated upcoming BoD elections). And looking through some of the other recent discussion, if the TDF majority group was hoping to come out of this looking like they're on the side of angels, they might want to get a refund on those tarnished halos.

    [1]: https://community.documentfoundation.org/t/sorry-but-i-give-...

    [2]: https://community.documentfoundation.org/t/vote-adopt-versio...

calibas  3 days ago

Yeah, that seems like an odd thing to say.

It's like they're setting themselves up for a "no true Scotsman" argument. Anybody who disagrees with their decisions isn't a "true believer" in open source.