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OnlyOffice removes Android repo and makes claims against EuroOffice (lemdro.id)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/opensource@programming.dev
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OnlyOffice appears to have removed their Android app from their repos: https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/documents-app-android

It can still be found on an archive: https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/origin/directory/?origin_url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2FONLYOFFICE%2Fdocuments-app-android

This means if you are de-Googled like me, they are no longer an option.

Perhaps coincidentally, they have also started making legal claims against the EuroOffice fork: https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE#%EF%B8%8F-legal-note

OC text by @Fmstrat@lemmy.world

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[–] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

OnlyOffice uses the proprietary Microsoft file formats, so they were already not an option for me.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Technically Office Open XML is not proprietary, since they published and standardized it under ISO/IEC 29500. Practically no software suite besides MS Office is able to render it 100% compatible to each other. But to be fair, neither did OpenDocument; a document in LibreOffice odt looks slightly different in OnlyOffice, WPS, SoftMaker, etc.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Huh you're right, seems they even publish specs of their own extensions to the format.

    They still restrict what you can do with it and how you can share it though, so technically still proprietary.

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    • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Read that too fast and thought it says OnlyFans, so I was intrigued. And yeah having read it properly now it's still interesting, and much less confusing.

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    • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    Was there an advantage to using only office over colabora

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Collabora office is based on LibreOffice. I think they mostly just tweak the UI, functionally it's pretty much LibreOffice.

    OnlyOffice tries to be very similar to Microsoft Office I think, similar to Collabora, but they also use Microsoft's proprietary file format (which I'm not sure collabora does, LibreOffice does not by default)

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    • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    I feel like open source drama always seems more complicated than headlines suggest

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