Comment by mschuster91

Money is one thing, it's desperately needed.

The key question is, who will call the shots? That's the most pressing problem with many open-source projects without commercial backers - they completely lack focus, unless there is either some sort of BDFL providing the guardrails (be it Linus Torvalds, Guido van Rossum, Daniel Stenberg, Fabrice Bellard or the other usual suspects), or someone backed by serious financial firepower uses said influence (i.e. Lennart Poettering of systemd).

Particularly something like an office / productivity suite is ripe for conflicts. One group of users (i.e. stingy governments) want something that can run on computers that would be more fitting in a museum. Other groups want pixel-perfect compatibility with Microsoft products, even if it results in a ton of extra work. Others don't want LDAP support for the email client's address book, but instead other stuff like an integration into Okta or whatever other SaaS. And either someone will get empowered to make such decisions by everyone involved... or it will be a lot of money wasted or a lot of chaos.