Tinker ☀️15h ago

Heavy drama in the open-source world of...

...Office Document Software.

Nextcloud, originally a fork of ownCloud, has launched Euro-Office, a fork of OnlyOffice (pissing off OnlyOffice). Collabora is weighing in and issuing comments against both OnlyOffice and Euro-Office while, itself, forking Collabora Office Desktop from the Document Foundation's LibreOffice. Document Foundation has now resumed LibreOffice Online which competes against Euro-Office and OnlyOffice.

(I think I've got all that right 😅 Correct me if I haven't! 😂)

❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 I unironically love this!!!! ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

Document software may appear boring on its face, but Microsoft Office is a big reason why folks still stay with Microsoft OS and don't (can't...) move to Linux. MS Office 365 is often used as a bridge to allow folks to move to Linux while still using Microsoft products in the browser but that solution still keeps them tied to closed source solutions.

Development of Free and Open Sourced Software (FOSS) office products, both desktop apps and online web apps, is a core and key element to allowing FOSS solutions to thrive - both for individuals and organizations.

This level of drama and fighting is indicative of a lot of effort and attention being thrown into this arena. I'm confident over time it'll settle and different projects will merge back together or at the very least borrow and build upon each's efforts.

Read and get your fill of the drama here: https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/02/eurooffice_forks_onlyoffice/

#FOSS #digitalSovereignty #installParty #Linux #diDay

Forking frenzy ensues after Euro-Office launch sparks OnlyOffice backlash

: Meanwhile, Collabora splits from LibreOffice Online amid claims TDF ejected 'all Collabora staff and partners'

The Register
Show threadmirabilos14h ago

@tinker for these of us who hadn’t followed it:

  • where does OnlyOffice come from?
  • what does Collabora do, and what’s their (now ex?) relationship to TDF?
  • TDF are those who forked LibreOffice off OpenOffice? (which itself is StarOffice IIRC?)
  • what is this "Online" version? where comes it from? any relationship other than the name to the version without it?

My point of knowledge is basically, there’s Lotus Smartsuite and Softmaker Office, and OOo is now LO in distros, and I had to suffer through Winword 97 during apprenticeship.

Show threadStefan Schmidt12h ago
@mirabilos @tinker Smartsuite… hmm how does that relate to 1-2-3?
Show threadmirabilos12h ago
@tinker @zaphodb 1-2-3 was the table calculation program included in it, though I mostly used WordPro (back then for CV and invoices)
Show threadGames That I Missed12h ago

@mirabilos Oh, I had not thought about Lotus Smartsuite and WordPro in a long, long time. I wrote all of my university papers in WordPro. Moving to Microsoft Word when I got an office job was disappointing.

I think I still have the install CD in a binder somewhere ...

Show threadEnema Cowboy

@GamesMissed @mirabilos

I remember using Aston-Tate Multimate.

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