Self-Host Weekly (10 April 2026)

The document wars, e-mail hosting discourse, and the return of an old friend

Weekly Highlights

The gloves are officially off in the battle of open source office suites. Last week, I covered the controversy surroundingEuro-Office, a Nextcloud-backed fork ofOnlyOfficethat recently launched in response tosignificant concerns over the existing project's code base.

This week,LibreOfficeand its nonprofit parentThe Document Foundation(TDF)clashed with the team behind Collabora Online, aweb-based version of LibreOffice, after months of rising tension between the two projects.

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And here we are. Collabora isn't happy andhas now announced plansto create a lighter alternative with its own code base, while LibreOffice isstanding firm in their decision.

Similar to last week's debacle, it's not clear whose side the average user should be on (if either). But perhaps the more important question is – how much of a distraction is this from developing viable alternatives to the platforms we should actually be rallying against (Microsoft Office, Google Drive, etc.)?

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