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# FLOSS Weekly Episode 876: There Is No Money Fairy

**[Hackaday](https://daily.dev/sources/hackaday)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

FLOSS Weekly episode 876 features an interview with Michael Meeks of Collabora, covering the company's origin as an open source consulting firm, the development of Collabora Online (an enterprise-grade LibreOffice-based office suite), and broader themes around digital sovereignty and open source sustainability.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://hackaday.com/2026/07/22/floss-weekly-episode-876-there-is-no-money-fairy>

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