“Recently, TDF have got around to distributing LibreOffice themselves on the Mac App Store, and (it is to be hoped) should re-invest the proceeds in developing LibreOffice themselves - although there’s quite a complex picture around that,” he said via email. When contacted for comment, Collabora productivity general manager Michael Meeks implied that TDF would lead the charge going forward.

It’s unclear whether Collabora or another developer will take charge of maintaining the version of LibreOffice hosted on the Mac App Store The Register notes that Collabora previously charged $10 for “LibreOffice Vanilla” with three years of support. Educating enterprises about is not a trivial task and we have just started our journey in this direction.” “The objective is to fulfill the needs of individual and enterprise users in a better way, although we know that the positive effects of the change will not be visible for some time. “We are grateful to Collabora for having supported LibreOffice on Apple’s Mac App Stores for quite a long time,” Vignoli said. The objective is to draw a clearer distinction between LibreOffice clients backed by professional services and community releases that are supported by volunteers, Vignoli added. (LibreOffice on the Mac App Store doesn’t include Java because external dependencies aren’t allowed on the store.) The LibreOffice client on the Mac App Store falls into this latter category because it’s not based on the same source code as the base LibreOffice project, Vignoli says, and was maintained by U.K.-based software consultancy Collabora.

In a blog post, Italo Vignoli, head of marketing and public relations at LibreOffice, said that the change was reflective of a “new marketing strategy” where TDF will focus on releasing free, community versions of LibreOffice while “ecosystem companies” develop “value-added” releases targeted at enterprise customers. First spotted by The Register, it’s an unexpected step for The Document Foundation (TDF) - the organization behind LibreOffice - which since its inception has made all versions of LibreOffice available at no charge. LibreOffice, the popular open source document processing suite, has begun charging users who download the software through the Mac App Store a one-time fee of $8.99.

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