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Office EU - Europe's Open-Source Productivity Suite (office.eu)
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[–] 32 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Why can't they just sponsor libreoffice rather than start their own?

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  • [–] [S] 12 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    That was my first thought too. Apparently Euro-office is based on OnlyOffice. According to Nextcloud and IONOS "Libre Office is 35 years old and no longer the most innovative and fluid". For more detail: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Microsoft-alternative-Nextcloud-and-Ionos-develop-open-source-Euro-Office-11228123.html. I would like to hear what The Document Foundation thinks about this.

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago

    Well 35 years is just false, even if you count it as a continuation from StarOffice that would be 41 years, I can't work out where they got 35 from, but that's a stupid argument anyway, it's only as old as its last version, OnlyOffice lacks features. I'm not impressed by any of this.

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Answering my own question, here is a link to a blog post from The Document Foundation, https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/27/odf-is-the-future-ooxml-is-the-past/. The criticism of The Document Foundation centers around the use of Microsoft OOXML format in OnlyOffice instead of the truly open ODF standard in LibreOffice.

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