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[0] For casual/home use, it should meet needs. Free, no subscription. Spreadsheet can collaborate. [1] Collabra Office seems to be the port of LibreOffice to ios. 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From the original announcement: \u201cHTML + JavaScript-based front end, powered by your system\u2019s native browser engine (like WebKit, Chromium, etc.)\u201d From the email-walled \u201cwhitepaper\u201d [0]: \u201cIf you need tools like the Base database module (including Java-based components) or the full Math module, Collabora Office Classic remains the right choice - Collabora Office isn\u2019t trying to replicate those. 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It just bugs out and redirects to a home page with a broken URL attempting to inject HTML from client side. That's strange because the only reason for a user to use OpenOffice/Collabra is because they don't want to dea", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "The New Collabora Office for Desktop"}, {"id": 750408880, "item_id": 46900555, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46900555", "by": "aaron_oxenrider", "date": "2026-02-05", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "We offer a Long Term supported product based on LibreOffice, branded as Collabora Office Classic", "excerpt": "I was also curious. It says this in about the middle of the homepage: \"We love LibreOffice. We are privileged to be the largest code contributors to the codebase, Collabora employs several founders of The Document Foundation, and many of the top committers. 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