After the announcement of many project members, with the Document Foundation organization to create independent one, is worsening the conflict with the main sponsor Oracle , apparently. More than 30 leaders of the German section, so far as for the free office suite dedicated volunteers who have, their retreat announced. These include virtually all leadership positions in the German project, are now orphaned.

After the cancellation of Oracle to participate in the Foundation and the simultaneous announcement that the project as before continue, members had a conflict of interest for those community shows the will to achieve a change. Since there is no give in Oracle so far regarding the issue of project organization and management of giving, would result for the signatories to an either / or question. In the future, do all the signatories of the Document Foundation dedicated and in this context libre office develop and promote.

This was necessary "to the community and cared for by their software development to give the opportunity," it says in the farewell letter. In the past, this was in spite of good collaboration with Sun / Oracle in areas such as quality assurance and translation was not always possible and have led to misunderstandings and discussions always. Therefore marketing are many ideas for further development of software to design, or has not been addressed or implemented because they were not the ideas of the main sponsors were responding to, or simply no decision had been made.