if only there was a good, actively developed and highly regarded free and open source alternative whose name would be something like “LibreOffice”…
I like and use Libreoffice, but its a local application. This makes it fine for working by yourself and on your own hardware. Google Docs (Gstuite) is an online application with the best collaboration integration I’ve seen and works on nearly any device you can open a modern browser on. Yes, both products have a word processor and a spreadsheet, but they don’t serve all the same use cases.
If this new Euro-office can replicate the Gsuite offerings (that Libreoffice lacks), then Euro-office could be a great addition to the open source community.
right, thank you for pointing it out.
I remember seeing a post earlier this year about libreoffice doing a web based version.
You’re proving my point. They just started working on it 3 months ago. It will be a long time, if ever, before it is a Gsuite replacement. They even said they tried this a few years ago and abandoned it. There’s a risk they’d do it again.
So if there’s another open source effort specifically focused on an online product, its a good thing.
Looks like this is going to be a browser based suite with online collaboration, more like Google docs than Microsoft office.
Pretty sure it uses Collabora, which is literally LibreOffice source code in a web shell.
Edit: just checked, they are using OnlyOffice as a base instead of the already European Collabora. Strange choice but so be it.
Isn’t Only Office European too? My memory tells me it’s from Estonia. It’s Europe!
it seems to be latvia according to wikipedia
With quite some controversy of ties to Russia
literally french name
i remember hearing this is just a rebrand of onlyoffice, is there something interesting about it (from a technical pov)?
Looks clean and consistent at first glance, which is a huge plus.
