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Euro-Office, Europe's open-source alternative to Microsoft Office and Google Docs, launches June 9 (www.zdnet.com)
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[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 22 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] iglou@programming.dev 15 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

OnlyOffice has a decent product owned by a pretty shitty business, so I am glad to see another alternative based on their product.

[–] wltr@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

Isn’t Only Office European too? My memory tells me it’s from Estonia. It’s Europe!

[–] C4pt41n_Pr0xy@lemmy.world 18 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

No it's not. The main company is Russian and they try way too hard to hide the fact that they are from Russia. They constantly creating new sub companies in Estonia, Cypher, UK and some more and transfer the HQ there while main Company is still in Russia along with CEO that owns it.

[–] wltr@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 7 hours ago

Oh, that’s sad. Thanks for informing me (and others) on that part! Considering the war in Ukraine (where I live now), there’s a no way, I’m going to use it then. In this case, I agree. Having a European solution is better than using Russian or even USian.

[–] Natanael@slrpnk.net 16 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

And a bit dumb

https://www.webpronews.com/fsf-slaps-down-onlyoffices-agpl-gambit-fork-freedom-hangs-in-the-balance/

They tried to abuse their trademark to control forks

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.today 6 points 21 hours ago

this seems stupid. maybe this fork could be worth using

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.today 6 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

it seems to be latvia according to wikipedia

[–] Leafimo@feddit.org 17 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

With quite some controversy of ties to Russia

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 8 points 21 hours ago

Yeah, fuck them. That shit does not make it onto my system.

[–] wltr@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 20 hours ago

Ah, my apologies to the people of both countries. It seems I remember them being Baltic States. Well, Latvia is even closer to Central Europe!