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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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[–] 15 points 5 months ago (5 children)

“Cloud-based” is the issue they’re complaining about. I mean we’re talking about an office suite. Those have been able to run on a potato since the 1980’s. Why the heck does that need to be hosted by a supercomputer that somebody else owns and operates?

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Collaborative editing and the like isn't really easy to solve with other methods. Maybe a P2P approach could be viable.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    P2P wouldn't scale very well, though. It would be really complicated once you have more than a small handful of people.

    From what I remember, Lemmy had/has a similar problem, where the whole thing would start bogging down past a point, because all the connected instances would need to update each other, instead of a main hub they could query like more centralised networks would.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago

    Having degoogled this year, I deeply miss Google sheets and the ability to (a) summon it on any device and (b) share it with shy real-time participants.

    I am trying out cryptpad which feels both flabby in terms of complexity and ui, but also in terms of delays and nuisances in processing and learning curve. Like if I were dumped into 'Corel quattro' or 'Lotus 123' for the first time, now.

    But I don't want them being able to slurp up my data and then hand it over to an adversarial government, so I am very interested in continuing to shift to European service providers for email, password management, and office documents.

    The criticism in the thread isn't about the vendor in specific, but the technology in general? Because I need persuasion (not that it's your job, I just know we are all fumbling towards hopefully "better")

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