The Nextcloud Podcast Interview with Michael Meeks, the General Manager of Collabora Productivity
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Apr 2, 2021 In this conversation, Michael Meeks, General Manager of Collabora Productivity and an open-source veteran, shares insights about Collabora Online's exciting journey. He discusses the importance of digital sovereignty, the innovative spin-out from SUSE, and how Collabora Online leverages LibreOffice's core for seamless interoperability. Michael also highlights the significance of community contributions, security measures, and unique deployment strategies that support thousands of users. Plus, he reflects on the cloud adoption surge spurred by the pandemic.
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Defense In Depth For Document Rendering
- Collabora runs heavy static analysis, fuzzing (OSS-Fuzz) and crash-testing on ~100,000 documents to harden LibreOffice.
- Each document executes in a jailed process with syscall filtering to limit exploitation risk.
Enable Macros Only With Admin Control
- Enable macros only under admin control inside the jailed environment and avoid default activation.
- Allow legacy Visual Basic only when necessary, because the sandbox is safer than running macros on end-user PCs.
UI Familiarity And Crisp Server Rendering
- Collabora added a notebook bar UI to bridge familiarity for Microsoft/Google users while preserving classic menus for muscle memory.
- They focus on rendering quality improvements to avoid blurry text from server-side pixel interpolation.
