Neil Brown# Forking frenzy ensues after launch of Euro-Office
By @lproven
This whole thing rather baffles me, and the twists and turns in Liam's comprehensive analysis show why. What a mess.
https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/02/eurooffice_forks_onlyoffice/
And, yes:
> Unlike the bulk of internet commenters, Brown is a real solicitor and does not merely play one on the internet.
It me.
Edvin Malinovskis@neil they got me to finally look up the definition of "boffin" 😅
@nCrazed I think that it is commonly slightly derogatory, but I wear it with pride.
@neil that has always been my impression.
But it wouldn't be the first time that I've learned an English word by simply observing the context in which I usually see it used just to learn a decade later that I got it wrong 🤣
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Liam Proven@greg_harvey @neil Read the previous article... It explains the interop situation in more detail. It's linked from this one.
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Clare Hooley@neil you had a very good point with the do one thing and one thing well. Here, seems Nextcloud is chasing all the things when I just want file syncing.
I also remember back when I bought my domain name in 2021 IONOS supported commercialising of nominet, so have been suspicious of them since.
Then, I never have wanted to do word processing etc. online. Maybe a little editing but that’s likely to be md editing and Nextcloud’s md editor def. has issues, at least on iOS.
I also remember back when I bought my domain name in 2021 IONOS supported commercialising of nominet, so have been suspicious of them since.
Then, I never have wanted to do word processing etc. online. Maybe a little editing but that’s likely to be md editing and Nextcloud’s md editor def. has issues, at least on iOS.
@clare_hooley Yes! Absolutely, that is one of my concerns about Nextcloud.
I do find collaborative document editing helpful, and I teeter between Cryptpad and Etherpad.
podsrover@podsrover LibreOffice, which is developing its own collaborative online editor?!
Steve Hill 🏴🇪🇺@neil @podsrover I must admit, I'm a bit unconvinced about web based Office stuff... I use Collabora to do collaborative stuff, and for quickly viewing documents stored in Nextcloud, but for serious work I always end up using LibreOffice because all the web based things are just too slow and clunky. I would love it if LibreOffice built some collaborative stuff into their native applications instead of having to run it in a web browser.
Ian Jackson@neil @lproven OnlyOffice quoted in that article as writing:
"As the creators of OnlyOffice, we want to make our position unequivocally clear: we do not grant anyone the right to remove our branding or alter our open source code without proper attribution."
Meaning, they think AGPLv3 lets them forbid you from removing their trademarked logo and then use trademark law to stop you forking it.
I didn't have an opinion about online office suites for use with NextCloud, but I do now.
Carlos SolísAs long as it's maintained and open-source, and I can deploy it on my own server, I don't mind whether Collabora, OpenOffice, or the resurrected LibreOffice Online end up winning the war. What worries me is that the internal divisions leave us users with none of them all in the end.