James House-Lantto (He/Him)5d ago

https://www.xda-developers.com/euro-office-free-open-source-alternative-to-microsoft-365-googledocs/

At a recent press event in Berlin, Germany, Nextcloud, Ionos, and a "coalition of other European enterprises and community organizations" announced Euro-Office, an open-source fork of OnlyOffice that aims to provide a viable alternative to restrictive platforms such as Microsoft Office 365 and Google Docs.

#OnlyOffice #EuroOffice #NextCloud #Foss #OpenSource

Euro-Office is a free, open source alternative to Microsoft 365 and Google Docs

The app is available in preview right now.

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Show threadOliver Brendel4d ago
@Theeo123 I really would like to know on what arguments the decision was based to develop an opensource version of OnlyOffice, instead of using Libreoffice
Show threadJames House-Lantto (He/Him)3d ago

@olibrendel

I did not know about this until today, but i wonder if it has anything to do with this drama?

https://itsfoss.com/news/document-foundation-collabora-feud/

LibreOffice Drama: TDF Removes Collabora Developers in One Sweep

TDF has used a bylaw Collabora publicly opposed to strip over 30 of its most active developers of their membership.

It's FOSS
Show threadOliver Brendel
@Theeo123 well, I don't know. It seems to me that this was after the Euro-Office announcement, no? But a lot is going on. I also saw that Libreoffice put out a statement what opensource should be.
Well, in all of this, I will go on using mainly Libreoffice. What I have seen of OnlyOffice, at least the online versions of writer, it does not seem as sophisticated as LL. And it seems to be too much a Word clone, but that's a very personal viewpoint 😉
And the there is the OnlyOffice copyright announcement
https://itsfoss.com/news/onlyoffice-forked/
ONLYOFFICE Gets Forked as "Made in Europe", Sparks Licensing and Trust Debate

Euro-Office is a new European fork of ONLYOFFICE. Here’s why it was created, what it changes, and why it’s already controversial.

It's FOSS
Apr 3 at 4:50amWeb
Show threadJames House-Lantto (He/Him)2d ago

@olibrendel

Yeah, I've got both installed desktop, I don't use the online versions. I mainly use libre office, every once in a while I'll find some weird formatting thing in a word document that just won't render properly, so I open it in only office, but that's about it.

Show threadOliver Brendel2d ago
@Theeo123
Ok, good test. Any sozvenir what these weird thigs are ? And is onlyoffice always better in reading docx ? Is this also true for xlsx , where I think problems are bigger ?
My main problem is the Zotero bibliographic data when switching between colleagues editing with LL or MSOffice
Show threadJames House-Lantto (He/Him)2d ago
@olibrendel no definitely not always, my guess is it has to do with the like 20 different versions of the ms word document format. I almost never use spreadsheets so I can't speak to that. I'm a pretty basic home user. Very casual