SUSE's LibreOffice team moves to Collabora

This move can also be interpreted that SUSE isn't making enough money through developing and supporting LibreOffice. There's probably some money to be made, but it looks like a question of return-on-investment and opportunity costs: "do we employ X engineers to work on LibreOffice, or do we employ X engineers to work on the server OS side?"

As a corollary, this (sadly) implies the Linux desktop isn't exactly a money spinner, which in turn implies there isn't much demand for a supported Linux desktop.

There are lots of free distros out there that provide an unsupported desktop, which on first sight seem to satisfy the desktop need in general. By "unsupported" I mean there is no guarantee of: API/ABI stability across multitple versions, bugs getting fixed, unified way of installing user facing software (ie. one version for all Linux distros), etc.

This contributes to a chicken-and-egg problem: if there is no stability, vendors aren't exactly encouraged to develop (or port) software for the desktop, which in turn means no commercial entity (such as SUSE or Red Hat) sees the need for a stable Linux desktop, and hence doesn't devote much resources to it. (Both SUSE and RH do have desktop teams, but they're miniscule in comparison to the effort put into servers, etc)