Euro-Office Wants to Replace Google Docs and Microsoft Office

rapnie

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro-Office A tech preview is available at https://github.com/Euro-Office

76rp

I wonder if this is kosher: https://github.com/Euro-Office/core/commit/e452acebeb3433895... On the one hand, the authors of AGPL certainly didn't intend the "Additional Terms" to be a means to restrict forking. On the other hand, Ascensio System SIA apparently wants to restrict forking, and flouting this is asking for legal trouble (especially since Euro-Office appears to be a major thing).

nasretdinov

Nice to see it _not_ being based on LibreOffice since I'm really not a huge fan of it, mostly due to the (clunky) interface and poor responsiveness. Never used OnlyOffice but it looks much more lightweight, so hopefully it'll be better

76rp

It has been alleged that the company behind OnlyOffice is selling a modified version (P7/R7 Office) is Russia. These allegations aren't completely meritless. For example, a commit to a third-party (?) P7-Office-plugin repo is titled " Replace OnlyOffice with R7-Office and fix encoding (UTF-8 no BOM)" (emphasis mine). ( https://github.com/r7-consult/plugin-grammalecte/commit/ca45... ) The R7-Office FreeBSD port contains files named "onlyoffice-docxf.xml" and "onlyoffice-oform.xml". ( https://www.freshports.org/editors/linux-r7-office/ ) A GhostBSD package contains files that contain Ascensio System SIA copyright notices. ( https://pkg.ghostbsd.org/stable/FreeBSD:14:amd64/latest/All/... --- Zstandard-compressed tarball)

6510

After 40 years of talking about it it finally happened. It's all thanks to Microsoft, without them it wouldn't be possible. They showed the world what office software can do and that ultimately it is their software and they get to decide how it works. (..or should that be if it works? ) edit:google deserves some credit too of course